“Bennifer was so big it was as though two people had never been in love before, and they had discovered it.”

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”

“Stefan was the one who ... the one she loved. But he'd never understood that love was not singular. He'd never understood that she could be in love with Damon and that it would never change an atom's worth of her love for him. Or that his lack of understanding had been so wrenching and painful that she had felt torn in two different people at times.”

“I had been in love before, but never found it necessary.”

“Never in her life had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but made no secret of it, as though they were so on principle. Some (though by no means all) turned up drunk, but they seemed to regard it as some new manifestation of grace they had discovered only the day before. They all appeared to be quite extraordinarily proud of something. On all faces was written that they had only just discovered some highly important secret.”

“Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.”