"You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him."
"Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want."
"It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys."
"There's no reason to think we're going to stop loving each other,' he said. 'And there's every reason to think that we won't."
"Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses."
"The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt."