Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces.

The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.

Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces.

Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?

There's no reason to think we're going to stop loving each other, ' he said. 'And there's every reason to think that we won't.

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Oh, I never look under the hood.

Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.

The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me.

A woman’s sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.

When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.