Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.

Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG.

I love you more than I think I should.

The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.

Whoa, who peed in your Cheerios?

Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.

Don’t start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep.”“She needed a ride.”I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. “What kind of ride?”“Not that kind of ride, ” he said slowly.

Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering me, or to detach and think of nothing at all.

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.