“if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.”

“When it rains," her father said "it pours.”

“To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.”

“What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care.”

“Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.”

“A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

“every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”