“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”

“A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love—true love—is something else.”

“Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion…”

“If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.”

“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”

“From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.”

“True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

“There never was a greater perfectionist, there never was, and never will be, a better dancer, and I never knew anybody more kind, more considerate, or more completely a gentleman…I love Fred, John, and I admire and respect him. I guess it's because he's so many things I'd like to be and I'm not.”