To be alive was to accept that your were fundamentally alone. - Gabrielle Zevin

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.

Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?'

I shook my head.

'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.