“Freedom you earn is more powerful than freedom handed to you.”

“Use your dick, dont be one.”

“Never, even in his wildest dreams, had his imagination come close to the reality of her.”

“Sometimes that’s what it takes. Putting it all out there and hoping love wins.”

“Use your dick, don’t be one.”

“I chanced on a wonderful book by Marius von Senden, called Space and Sight. . . . For the newly sighted, vision is pure sensation unencumbered by meaning: "The girl went through the experience that...”

“The hoopoe said: 'Your heart's congealed like ice;When will you free yourself from cowardice?Since you have such a short time to live here,What difference does it make? What should you fear?The wor...”

“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”

“If there was anything hed learned in his life, it was to fight fire with fire, and if that didnt work, piss on the fire to put it out.”

“She came out of nowhere like a two-by-four against the skull, knocking all common sense out of him and turning him into a walking woody.”

“Claire, if you dont move, I will have served two tours of duty only to die in this bed.”

“She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot.”

“Did you miss me?A little bit, she said with a shrug.You have tears running down your cheeks, he said with a grin. I think you missed me more than a little.”

“I don't know what the future holds. I only know that I want to be with you. You and me. Everything else is negotiable.”