Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.

My heart is beating like it's lonely, like there's nothing else inside of me.

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.

Deep down, where my boys don't know me, I'm an optimist.

She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.

Everyday she loses a bit more of herself, every day another nail in her coffin house payments medical bills and middle aged isolation

And now I wnt love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Who can do anything after Beethoven?

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

Ensure everyone knows what success is and what their role is in achieving it.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again

O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!