“But you're wrong. Happiness is EARNED, like everything else. It's achieved.”

“Happiness isn't what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don't exist. . . Happiness is earned, like everything else. It's achieved. ”

“It's ok to feel happy, right? She hoped he'd know what she meant.”

“...if you stay in it for any length of time, like anyplace else, a cafe becomes a world.”

“Sometimes, happiness feels so fragile…So what do we do about it?...Live. Forget that it’s fragile. Live like it isn’t”

“Even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness.”

“A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too is knowing what you love.”