“It isn’t a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build and kites to chase, children that are being born, old hearts that are giving in.”

“She was supposed to build sand castles on the beach and put her toes in the ocean,” Madame says.”

“But you," "Sixteen is perfect. You can spend the rest of your lives together. He won't have to be alone.”

“I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.”

“Real’ is a dirty word in this place.”

“We figure out what death means when we’re born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.”

“Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”