“Falling hard and fast. And there didn't seem to be a thing I could do about it.”

“I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.”

“I was falling in love with her, and falling too fast and hard to easily find any footing.”

“And it seemed hard to believe that these people who were so close to me couldn’t see how desperate I was, or if they could they didn’t care enough to do anything about it, or if they cared enough to do anything about it they didn’t believe there was anything they could do, not knowing—or not wanting to know—that their belief might have been the thing that made the difference.”

“The way I look at love is you have to follow it, and fall hard, if you fall hard. You have to forget about what everyone else thinks. It has to be an us-against-the-world mentality. You have to make it work by prioritizing it, and by falling in love really fast, without thinking too hard. If I think too hard about a relationship I'll talk myself out of it. I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.”

“He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things.”