“When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.”

“We have formed a sick little friendship over the past year”

“Together we shared a bond not even death would violate.”

“You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.”

“Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees”

“When you were in a room with Kurtis James, whether it was one or a hundred other people, Kurtis seemed to be the only one there”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

“Every great love starts with a great story...”

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extend...”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”

“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.”