“Someday, well run into each other again, I know it.Maybe Ill be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,thats when Ill deserve you. But now, at this moment, you cant hook your boat...”

“You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just ...”

“I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”

“In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.”

“Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop”

“Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.”

“But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and ...”

“To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost.”

“But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”