“I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.”

“Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.”

“I wonder when, and how, she decided that what she has with him trumped the thrill of being with someone new.”

“Shoot the moon," Aurora says dreamily. "Would it bleed, do you think? I think it would. I think it would bleed...shooting stars.”

“I live to defy y'all's expectations.”

“So now she and I are friends - not with benefits, but memories.”

“I realize that this is the way the world works. If I could stop the spin, stop the rotation, I would have done so long ago. I would have stopped it the first moment that Catcher's lips met mine under the moon in the amusement park. I would have held us in that eternity forever. But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all. One even tumbles from the next out of our control and we are dragged along, helpless.”