“If you're scared, do something.”

“I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.”

“How do you ever hold on to anybody?”

“She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like stars.”

“Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.”

“The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.”

“For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life ...”

“So none of the young men we encountered during our season gave you hot pants for them?Belinda! Your language. I've been mingling with Americans. Such fun. So Naughty.”

“There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.”

“Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.”

“There were some low moments out there on the road tonightabandonment and whats the point?but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. Kurt...”

“The people of God are the driving force of every nation”