“Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to.”Halley: “The what?”Macon: “The Jedi Mind Trick.” He looked at me. “Didn’t you ever see Star Wars?”

“I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn’t come easy for, someone like me.”

“This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.”

“The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.”

“This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.”

“You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.”

“You couldn't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it.”