“It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.”

“I wasn't sure what would happen with us. I knew that there were no guarantees. Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them, on sunny Saturday mornings, and the consequences just had to be lived with, every day. But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing that it would change your life.”

“...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...”

“If you like everything, that’s basically just saying that you don’t really like anything.”

“And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.”

“It was like bringing them a little bit of the world that was going on without them.”

“If you have a gift for something, it's wrong not to work at it!”