“Ive never been the one. Not for anybody.He closed the distance between them. Youll get used to it. He tipped her face up to his, kissed her.Why? Why am I the one?Because my life opened up, and it f...”

“If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isnt sending you the lets go back to my place signals. In that caseDont go there, Bob. Lets just not go there.”

“She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?”

“Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.”

“Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every w...”

“Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“Love gives us happiness, peace then it gives us a lot of pain and you also have to sacrifice your happiness, then you began to hate that person, so fall for friendships. Respect each others space a...”

“Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.”

“Money cannot buy friendship.”