There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy.

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.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.