Page 14: "That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see him again."
Page 19: "In the end, it's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity."
Page 31: "...like the one small imperfection that makes the whole painting work somehow."
Page 36: "As if it were far easier to start over completely than to try to put everything back together again."
Page 37: "There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization."
Page 40: "...but some fragile instinct, some mistaken sense of pride, made her refuse to turn around again."
Page 47: "'It's easy when you find the right person.'"
Page 50: "You shouldn't need to prove anything if you really mean it." "The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all the time. Even when everything sucked."
Page 58: "'I suppose it's all a matter of perspective.'"
Page 67: "Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?"
Page 72: "...you're facing up to it. That you're moving on. It's brave."
Page 76: "I just find it interesting...that you're so open about it."
Page 122: "If you love something, set it free."
Page 127: "...though whether it's a wish to protect or to be protected, she's not really sure."
Page 165: "'Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.'" "It's a small gesture, but there's something meaningful about it, the two of them stepping into the world as one."
Page 178: "She closes her eyes against the flood of words that never reached her, all those things left unsaid." "...whatever momentum was propelling her before seems to have disappeared entirely." "'No one is useless in this world...who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'"
Page 222: "Look what a hard time I've given him. But no matter how many times I've pushed him away, he always come back around again. And I wouldn't want it any other way."
Page 229: "That I'd had the nerve to tell him what I thought before it was too late."
