"She wasn't the one...Well, I guess the people who we were when we met - which was just out of college - and who we ended up being the time we split - we just weren't the same. She wanted me to be something I wasn't, and I wanted the same of her." He shrugged. "Sometimes the math just doesn't work out, even if you think it will." (pg. 118 - 119)
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"It's amazing how life works," I said aloud at some point. "How fate and how faith and how destiny just all come together. How if you hadn't sat down next to me of if I'd decided to go to Princeton, how we probably wouldn't be here right now."
"You know, I almost didn't ask you for the gum that day. I remember thinking that I looked so lame trying to make conversation. Funny looking back on it now, right?....What a tragedy that would have been. But I guess that's how it works. Life dishes it out, brings you together, pulls you apart, whatever. It's up to you to figure out the intended course."
I smiled at myself in the mirror. Good fortune, I though. I'm pretty sure that I already have it. (pg. 297)
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