I'm ending this.''No. Come on. It's not worth it.''You are, ' he said fiercely, looking at her.'You're worth it.

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.

Men were not supposed to be mushy, but one thing his mother taught him was that it was better to understand your feelings than hide from them

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me

At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.

When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left?

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.