“This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.”

“If that isn't a declaration of love, I don't know what is. And the words tumble out of me—a dam breached.”

“Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.”

“Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.”

“I crossed a line by making his family's personal business my own. But isn't that what friendship is? Isn't that what love is? It's more than caring and laughing and inspiring. It's about taking hurt and anger off people's shoulders and helping to carry the weight. It's more important to love people on the worst days than their best.”

“this isn't so much romance as it is opportunity [victor mancini]”