“I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.”

“Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.”

“Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for.”

“the worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth.”

“I thought I had everything until I found you.”

“She who leads with her heart is never forgotten.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“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.”