“Our hearts are like starfish, regenerating what we’ve lost. We move forward, regroup, reconfigure; people find ways to be happy.”

“Our distance has lived in me like the aftermath of a bad dream-I carry it around, the knowledge that we were once close, that something was lost; it's the lingering sadness of unfinished business. (18)”

“We all think we're snowflakes, but we're Tinker Toys, held together by our interchangeable parts. (39)”

“The person who knew you best when you were seventeen will always have a claim on you, no matter how much you change. There's something seductive and magnetic about it, the feeling of being understood like that. I suppose it goes both ways." (19)”

“…how when you love someone, you take that person into your body, your fingertips predicting their angles and curves; how you smell like them in the morning.”

“I’m in a pocket of glowing light, protected from complicated relationships and huge mistakes, past and future.”

“Humour is our 'default mode', if you like: we do not have to switch it on deliberately, and we cannot switch it off.”