“But I don't believe coincidences are chance events. I think they're the times we happen to see the mysterious pattern connecting everything.”

“It was time for me to go, to accept the dream was over and the poem exchange meant nothing; that the person I though I was no longer existed.”

“Time stretched, expanded so there was just him and me and the closenss, and I thought how it was all very well to tell yourself what you should and shouldn't feel but in the end the should word didn't make the slightest scrap of difference.”

“But no one ever explains how it's the little choices that send your life careening in another direction, like deciding to send a poem in the mail or saying yest to a walk on a moonless night.”

“People say that it's the big decisions that are important... that these are the type of issues worthy of prolonged consideration. But no one ever explains how it's the little choices that send your life careening in another direction.”

“I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.”

“Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.”