You don't choose a book the book chooses you - Gabrielle Zevin

But the best parts of him were in his books. I suppose I could always read those if I missed him too much. I haven't wanted to read one yet, though.

It's more than romantic. It's better than romance. It's friendship. Sam laughed. Who cares about romance anyway?

What was a gate anyway?

A doorway, she thought. A portal. The possibility of a different world. The possibility that you might walk through the door and reinvent yourself as something better than you had been before.