"Mass is not proportional to volume. A girl as small as a violet. A girl who moves like a flower petal is pulling me toward her with more force than her mass. Just then, like Newton’s apple, I rolled toward her without stopping until I fell on her, with a thump. With a thump. My heart keeps bouncing between the sky and the ground. It was my first love."

"Ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others, more determined to conquer their h…"

"She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asl…"

"And when we have that drink together which we both so richly deserve, I hope we can discover a way in which…"

"Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be …"

"He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. …"

"If the Pope stuck to standard Christian theology, I would be the first in line. If the Pope spoke out with …"