Page 34: "Not telling is the same thing as lying."
Page 44: "But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time, I had to just face it."
Page 45: "Firsts were important. But I was pretty sure lasts were even more important." "...he was going to be my last and my every and my always."
Page 46: "...a piece that she would always treasure, but that was all, because history is just that. History."
Page 54: "We were growing up. We were still figuring out how to be in each other's lives without being everything to each other."
Page 56: "I know that I hurt us, that I'm going to have to work really hard to get you to trust me again. I'll do whatever it takes if you'll let me."
Page 58: "I didn't want to see a mark on his face one day and not know how it got there." "All I could think was, if we just get through this storm, we will make it. He'd made mistakes, I had too. But we loved each other, and that was what mattered."
Page 59: "That day, without another word about it, we decided to leave the past in the past. The future was where we were headed."
Page 61: "Remember, remember, or the dream will slip away forever...And then I had it... I let out a sigh. I felt so relieved."
Page 64: "...it made me feel that even with all the changes over the past few years, he was still the same boy and I was still the same girl."
Page 73: "You care too much about what other people think." "Friendship in college was different that way. You spend all this time with people, sometimes every day, every meal. There was no hiding who you were in front of your friends."
Page 116: "I started seeing things more clearly. I just needed to separate emotion from reason."
Page 119: "But you're my little sister. You come first." "If you guys love each other that much, you can wait a couple of years to be together."
Page 149: "He knew almost everything about me and still loved me."
Page 161: "There hadn't been one specific moment. It was like gradually waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It's a slow process, but when you're awake, there's no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love."
Page 162: "You're an honest guy, Conrad. But you don't let people in. It's impossible to get close to you."
Page 181: "And then I despised him for not being perfect. For being human."
Page 187: "She was an upbeat kind of person, naturally cheerful, like Jere. If there was a bright side, Belly would find it."
Page 210: "He's family. Family's family. Never forget that..."
Page 244: "I never felt more alive. Anger, sadness, joy. He made me feel it all. No one else had that kind of effect on me. No one."
Page 245: "When [he] told a girl he loved her, he meant it. A girl could believe in that. A girl could maybe even bet her whole life on it."
Page 253: "...knowing without me having to tell her."
Page 257: "If it was nothing, you would have told me about it. Instead you kept it a secret. After all that stuff you said to me about trust, you kept that to yourself."
Page 260: "...of all days, I should look like me."
Page 274: "They all seemed to know exactly where they were going. Some clear destination in mind. Home."
Page 286: "There are moments in every girl's life that are bigger than we know at the time. You look back, you say, That was one of those life-changing, fork-in-the-end moments and I didn't even see it coming. I had no idea. And then there are the moments that you know are big. That whatever you do next, there will be an impact. your life could go in one of two directions."
