And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

I am a Christian and I don't want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am.

Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.