"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."
"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."
"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."
"There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here.He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes me want to let him open doors for me.There's only one of him."
"If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?"
"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."