“I had never gotten the hang of dating — I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't.”
“Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?""What?" He looks mortally offended. "Do I look like the kind of guy who's never had a girlfriend? Have you even met me?”
“The name's Jude Ryder since you're going to be my wife soon. And I didn't used to do girlfriends, flowers, or dates. And then I met you, and that didn't work for you. So I changed for you and you changed for me too,”
“It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.”
“I asked him what it was like to have a dad. He said he didn't think it mattered who you had as long as you had somebody good.”
“Somebody's girlfriend," she said. "Somebody's sister, somebody's daughter. All these things I never knew I was before, and I still don't really know what I am.”