“And whats your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. Loving someone who loves me.”

“Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more.”

“Did you know that darkness has a taste, Grandma?”

“Sometimes you dont know what youre looking for until you find it, Harry answered. Its a methodology.”

“What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.”

“in order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible”

“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.”