“You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.”

“You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back.”

“I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.”

“I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.”

“But you couldn't unpop a bubble.”

“I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.”

“Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.”