She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice--a fetal smile--and it very nearly killed her.

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.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.

Actually Gabriel’s an archangel,” I corrected. “But otherwise, yes.” “Well, that explains why he’s so hard to impress,” said Xavier flippantly

I start every day making sure I'm where I need to be and thinking like I need to think.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

All the same stuff that happened to [Bob] McDonnell , and McDonnell got prosecuted. And he [Tim Kaine] is sitting there free and - just like Hillary [Clinton].

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.

I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.