“Do you believe in love after last sight?”

“I'll love you until the day after forever.”

“I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second.”

“She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?”

“It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbour, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past, like the ladies in the DAR, or the Gatlin Historical Society, or the Sisters. And you didn't have to accept that things had to be the way they were, like Lena. Ethan Carte Wate hadn't, and I couldn't either.”

“The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—”

“Yeah, right. The things that I'm afraid of? You wouldn't even believe.""You're afraid to trust me.”