“We were just two stars in the endless night sky, as dazzling and dwarfed and stupendous and insignificant as that made us.”

“The only other time I've seen Paul cry was when he got hit in the teeth with a cricket bat when he was fourteen. And that time Diana made us watch 'Bambi'.”

“If I could retrieve my words I would, grab them out of the sky and hide them where they can't be seen.”

“You're good for me," I say. "The light to my shade.""Then you're the night to my day. A person needs both, you know.”

“Henny Penny," says Lupe. "Do you know this story?"I shake my head. Conversations with her can turn cryptic in the blink of an eye."She thinks the sky is falling. Do you see my meaning?""Not really.""Sometimes you have to let the world end, so you can build a new one.”

“You're polite and sensitive, and you always try to do the right thing by people. And according to my friend Kara - you remember the blonde woman from last night? - you wear a pair of jeans very well.”

“It's never nice to admit we don't know our friends as well as we thought we did.”