“A week feels like a year when youre seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched me...”

“People arent always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You cant just meet someone and expect them to be everything yo...”

“When you meet an extraordinary person, its like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people ...”

“Every person comes with a place. It can be a house, a park, a building. When you meet someone, you are unknowingly meeting a place, a two-for-one deal that neither party is really aware of yet. Reg...”

“This is just the way life is sometimes cruel, sometimes beautiful, all the time confusing and frightening and exhilarating and we just have to deal with it. Thatswhat freedom is.”

“I wanted to tell him then how loneliness can become a tangible thing, after a while. Its something that you carry with you on your shoulder, hold up like a friend with a twisted ankle. It sits with...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“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.”