Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered."Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.

Fine! You guys can all be beautiful snowflakes! I'm gonna go over here and be an awkward snowflake!

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

Maybe I’d already guessed that the physics of us didn’t defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction.

Distance is but metrics, unmeasurable is the heart

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation . . .Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic.

I could feel his hand on my waist, his arms around me, feel the rise and fall of his chest next to mine as I held my breath, and wished the sun would drop out of the sky.

So you would kill Old Ireland?” Anna Livia said. “You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn’t be.

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting.

Toast is me. I am toast.

There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.