Tess, will you marry me?" Toby laughed.

If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.

I may have been buzzed last night, but I remember everything. I can't promise you that I won't want to drive you home, or kiss you like crazy again. Because I will. I do.

So if I was to choose? Then I choose complicated, ” I said, with a nod of finality. I met his eyes again in a silent challenge.“I choose you.

He looked at me now."Remember I said, 'what if I didn't want to fix your bike?'"I remembered. "Yes...""I didn't want to fix it, because I liked driving you places.

A 'T' for Tess, a 'T' for Toby.

Tess, there isn't a drunken, screaming netballer in the world that would have made me not want to ... continue.

Do you want some words of advice, Tess?”I glanced at Adam’s profile as he sipped.“Don’t give your heart away too easily.” He turned to me. “Make him earn it.

Just be careful, hon, ” Rosanna said.“Oh, are the plates hot?” I flinched back just before my hands made contact.Rosanna laughed. “No, but hot boys can burn you just as easily.

When you knock off work tonight, go looking for Toby, because, trust me, he will be looking for you.

Well, if they set you in the kissing booth, let me know, I am always willing to donate for a worthy cause.

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.

You don't have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.