“Troy and I loved each other. We called it 'unconditional love', which was true. Once conditions arose, the love dissipated.”

“We have big dreams - sometimes scary, unforgettable dreams that repeat on the same date every year and are shared by every person in town - but we make those big dreams come true. Remember the cloc...”

“Josh loved his mother, but he did not know why. Diane loved her son, and she did not care why.”

“It didn't matter what he said. The world is terrifying. It always is. But Cecil reminded her that it was ok to relax in a terrifying world.”

“It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them”

“History is us squinting into the past, mistaking millions of tiny vibrations in all directions for unified, unidirectional movements by entire civilizations.”

“Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to”

“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”

“Check yourself often and correct your faults. Quit blaming others. Take responsibility for your own life. That's the only way you can grow!”

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”

“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels of this war have had too much of the strength, maturity and craftsmanship critics are looking ...”

“If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.”

“Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.”

“In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.”