Happiness is a choice - Gabrielle Zevin

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

When you have children, you'll never be able to worry about a friend as much again," Dov said.

Love you madly, my sweet friend. Love you madly. The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.