Page 2: I wondered I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seems utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing it’s will on the unwilling.
Page 5: Because as much as I didn’t want to admit, he was sure right about that. That some things never change.
Page 7: Things are seldom as neat and tidy as that starry-eyed anecdote your share documentary-style on a couch.
And unless you marry your high school sweetheart (and even sometimes then), there are usually a not-so-glorious back story.
But no matter what you call it, it seems that every couple has two stories –the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version, best left alone.
Page 14: Being evasive could translate as an attempt to be flirtatious or coy: Guess where I am. Come find me, why don’t you.
So what is the big deal about seeing an ex-boyfriend, having a little polite conversation? Besides, if I were to flee, wouldn’t I be playing a game that I have no business of playing? A game that was lost a long time ago?
Page 16: The opposite of love is indifference
Page 27: I was acutely aware of Leo’s every small move. I watched him stretch and yawn. I watched him fold his newspaper and stow it under his chair. I watched him saunter out the room and return with a pack of peanut butter cracker which he ate openly despite the No food or Drinks signs posted around the room.
I was intrigued in an inexplicable, unprecedented way.
Page 35: That despite our different tastes, he never makes me turn my music off or down. Andy is the opposite of a control freak. A Manhattan litigator with a surfer boy, live-and-let-live, no worries mentality.
Page 52: I’m not saying its healthy to be past-obsessed, ferreting out details of every ex. But its simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
Page 65: And although one broken heart doesn’t make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things –time and an emotional replacement –to fully mend one.
Page 105: And although some might have criticized our first time lacking spontaneity, I would have changed a thing about it. And still wouldn’t.
Page 118: She said everyone needs to get dumped once –that its part of life –and that obviously things weren’t meant to be.
Page 121: ‘Cause there are very few things worse than a man who doesn’t know his place.
Page 132: “No matter how much or how little two people you love have in common.. Or whether they overlap or have a decade between them… or whether they hate each others guts or know absolutely nothing about one another… they’re still linked in some strange way.
Page 198: What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy.
Page 253: She’s still a bitch with an amazing entitlement, but at least she’s a lighthearted bitch with an amazing entitlement.
Page 289: Change can be good… sometimes.
But it’s always tough to let go of the past.
Page 316: Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
