- stopped at: pg. 149
- pg. 64 "She kissed me on the cheek— and then she said, “I’ll love you till the day I die, Sally.” I cried all the way home."
- pg. 65 “If we’d never met, then there would be only three seasons.” / “Hmm,” I said. “Am I supposed to guess which season?” / “Yup.” / I thought a moment— then I smiled. “Spring. Then there would be no spring.” / “Spring,” she said.
- pg. 83 "She held me in her arms. I wanted to hold on to her and never let go. But I was going to have to let go. And that hurt. Why does it hurt when you love someone? What is it with the human heart? What was it with my heart? I wondered if there was a way to keep her in this world forever. And it was as though she were reading my mind. “No one is meant to live forever,” she whispered. “Only God lives forever. You see these hands? Hands get old. That’s the way it’s supposed to be, mijito. Even the heart gets old.”
- pg. 99 "I’m making a fist. This is my fist. I want to punch a wall and tell God to make Mima well. And after that, punch Him too."
- pg. 103 And right then I wished with all my crooked heart that my dad had been the man who’d fathered me.
- pg. 124 " I guess there were people walking around in the world who understood how to comfort people. Comfort, that was the word for the day. I liked that word better than death."
- pg. 128 "Her mother had left a note on the bathroom mirror, written in lipstick: just because my love isn’t perfect doesn’t mean i don’t love you."
- pg. 141 “So you’ll be my river, Sally?” She was crying again. / “Yeah,” I said. "I would do all the running for you."
- pg. 143 "But as I was walking back toward the house, the thought occurred to me that I’d like to get drunk. I’d never been drunk. And I thought it might help. If you got drunk, you didn’t think about things, did you? I was thinking stupid thoughts and doing stupid math inside my head. I was going a little crazy."
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