Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people." Simon turned to - Gabrielle Zevin

There are no ghost, but up here" — she gestured to her head — "it's a haunted house.

Sam used to say that Marx was the most fortunate person he had ever met — he was lucky with lovers, in business, in looks, in life. But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty. It was impossible to know — were persimmons his favorite fruit, or had they just now become his favorite fruit because there they were, growing in his own backyard? He had certainly never mentioned persimmons before. My God, she thought, he is so easy to love.

I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.