“She said, "We're detectives" in the tone of voice that someone might say, "Making you happy isn't making me happy"”

““Umm,” said Ooo, dubiously.
“Do I detect a questioning tone in your voice?” inquired the bird tartly. “Which might imply that you find a flaw in my reasoning?””

“what made you happy once might not make you happy now.”

“I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.”

“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”

“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.”

“You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.”

“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”

“I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.”

“If something or someone makes you happy and brings joy to your life, it does not have to make sense to anyone else.”