“These fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought of making their own happiness and chasing some crazy dream, all they want to do is narrow their ...”

“With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.”

“How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”

“The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they w...”

“We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.”

“The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.”

“Dude, I dont want to talk about Laceys prom shoes. And Ill tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. Its called a penis.”

“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”

“You can leave your place you are sitting at without leaving that place either by playing music or by listening to music! Music is a migration to the unknown!”

“What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.”

“I will be the one to leave you.”

“If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way with...”

“When we are at peace within our marriage, the effects can be astounding! We will raise happier children, become better employees, and overall find the joy in life.”

“Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”