Some day no one will remember that she ever existed', I wrote in my notebook, and then, 'or that I did.' Because memories fall apart too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost, but with its shadow.

“Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-s…”

“Love is the most common miracle.”

“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple …”

“Admittedly, I am only seventeen now. But some years are longer than others.”