“The examples seemed to fall into two categories: girls who used sweetness and girls who used pluck.”

“Whatever word you use to describe diving into the deepest part of a human. Take your pick; they're all woefully inadequate, but they're also all we have.”

“As Will stood watching Pen, just before he turned away, his initial astonishment shifted into something quieter. Soon, she will see me; we’ll sit someplace and talk, he thought. He felt like a kid who falls asleep on a long car trip, wakes up, and looks out the window to find that he’s in a new place, or home, and that it’s morning.”

“I think there are certain people who change the way time moves.”

“Maybe she would remember who he was, and maybe she would come back.”

“You mustn't let men drive you to mangling the English language, no matter how sweet they are.”

“There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving.”