“And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to.”

“I did not understand that one future comes at the exclusion of all others. Everybody pretends that you die only once. But that’s not true. You can die a thousand possible futures in the course of a single, stupid life.”

“I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.”

“A thousand electric cars could run on how you feel when you know that the person you like likes you back. It feels incredible. Like it shouldn't be possible. Of all the happy coincidences to ever exist, it's one of the happiest.”

“It was my letting go that gave me a better hold.”

“We’re all somebody’s prospect; we’re all somebody’s customer.”

“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.”

“be a person with knowledge not just opinions”