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

Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?"

She said, "I refused to be shamed."

"How did you do that?" you asked.

"When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.