I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?" "I hope not.

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.

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go

Very few people look the part and are it too.

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Money lets you enjoy the finer things of life, but it doesn't change who you are. It magnifies and brings into fruition the things that you want to hide most. It is a mask for insecurities as well.

Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.

One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

Your spirit is the true shield.

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.

First of all, the majority of us, regardless of what we may say, are capitalists. That is, we practice it, it's what we "do," it's how we live, we are capitalists.