“I continued up the stairs, this time on wings, suspecting for the first time that Louisa's book might outlive us all. ”

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever.I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”

“I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.”

“They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.”

“All of us might wish at times...”

“I recall how I suspected at the time that my young friend was indulging in her first bout of calf love.”