“Well sue me for staring. I'd be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs.”

“Can dimples wink? Because I felt like his just did.”

“She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes."You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?”

“It doesnt matter whats wrong with him. Were not going to act like he doesnt exist. Not anymore.”

“Well, why not just snap my damn olive branch and beat me with it? I was only trying to help.”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“ I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”

“We do not remember days, Shemei, we remember moments, and the richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”

“Upon my soul!' Tietjens said to himself, 'that girl down there is the only intelligent living soul I've met for years.' A little pronounced in manner sometimes; faulty in reasoning naturally, but q...”

“I just don't want to cozy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing.”