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"'Why did you love him when you could've loved me?' she said. 'What does he have that I don't, other than he's a boy and I'm a girl?'
But I had loved her all my life. I had loved her before we knew what the world was, what love was, and who we ourselves were. But all these things I could not say."

"It baffles me that often songs and poems are written about love at first sight: those who claim to experience the phenomena have preened themselves, ready for love. There is nothing extraordinary about that. Childhood friendship, much more fatal, simply happens."

"Some people have to figure out what they want from a life before they commit to that life. Some, like me, can commit to anything, which is like committing to nothing."