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Quote #1
Still, getting over him didn't take that long at all. And that's the thing that makes me wary. Where did all those feelings go? People spend their whole lives looking for love. Poems and songs and entire novels are written about it. But how can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins? (58)
When readers first meet Natasha, she’s decided she doesn’t believe in love because it doesn’t always last forever. By the end of her Very Important Day with Daniel, she acknowledges that “meant to be” doesn’t have to mean “forever,” and she tells Daniel she loves him.
Quote #2
Love is just chemicals and coincidence. So why does Daniel feel like something more? (105)
It’s honestly impressive how committed Natasha is to explaining all her feelings away with science. She’s falling hard for this guy at the worst possible time, but she’s still convinced it’s just a coincidence that they happened to meet in the first place.
Quote #3
There's a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn't mean love at first sight. It's close to love at second sight. It's the feeling when you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don't love them right away, but it's inevitable that you will. (74)
Awww. Leave it to Daniel the aspiring poet to drop some sentimentality into discussions about the Novikov self-consistency principle. Koi no yokan is a much less stalker-y concept than “love at first sight” anyway.