“Gorgeous' you say in English and he likes that word tasting it like wine.”

“English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.”

“You learned that it was easy frighteningly easy to get lost in someone else's life accommodating him and stop being yourself. You learned to be wary about falling in love. And you learned that someone who loved you could stop loving you for some dark reason and even though that was bruising you were more resilient than you knew. Eventually you would get over it more or less.”

“You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.”

“All of live is a celebration if you just find the right spot in the sun to take it all in”

“It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.”

“It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.”