“This is now and forever - the moment everyone must have, the moment that encompasses all other moments; now and before, now and after: all time.”

“I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine.”

“You think it is so different because you live here in this time, in this place, because I'm from the far side of the sea. But we are attached by the water between us. It is the same tide and moon, the same sea, love, fear, losing, and death. Love does not change with time. The love that fills us and empties us, that clips our wings so thatwe must decide whether to learn to fly after that. To love or to fear.”

“This is the thing we must guard against: that others' expectations, especially our families', do not become our own.”

“When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.”

“Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.”

“I hope you never understand what it is to know that all you believed is wrong--sorely wrong.”