I don't want to die," A.J. says after a bit. "I just find it difficult to be here all the time. - Gabrielle Zevin

It is lucky, she thinks, that we don't feel all the love inside us every moment. We couldn't breathe or walk or eat. It is lucky that it just flares up every now and again then resolves itself into a manageable dormancy.

There is no purity in art. The process of how you arrive at something doesn't matter at all.

How do I go on when the person I love most in the world is in love with someone else? Someone tell me the solution, he thought, so I don't have to play this losing game all the way through.