“Life is beautiful but no one comes out of it alive. So live each day as if its your last. Walk in the sunshine. Dance beneath the stars. Laugh hard and long and never, ever forget how very special...”

“You really are a ray of sunshine, arent you?”

“Do you know how many people would give anything for what you have? Not the fame or wealththe opportunity to wake up tomorrow healthy, pain free and with a future stretching out before them?”

“When youre gone and people remember you, what will they say about you? That you were happy, generous and kind? That you loved big? Or that you were the drunken singer in a rock band?”

“Look at the picture, Emma. Do you see his expression? He looks like hes been waiting his whole life to find you and suddenly there you are.”

“Dont leave me, Em. Youre my salvation.”

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”

“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.”