“I think I knew from the first moment I met her, she would be the one to replace me. I didn't think it would happen that fast, but it did.”

“She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.”

“Congratulations," she said. "You win.”

“The memories were strange clingy things like burrs knotted in his hair. He could choose to let them be, he only felt them when he pulled them, and he could pretend they weren't there like positioni...”

“When you touch a man's body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man's heart he will remember it forever.”

“It was late morning when he woke and found the telephone beside his bed in the hotel tolling frantically, and remembered that he had left word to be called at eleven. Sloane was snoring heavily, hi...”

“Staring over him in the dim light of a side lamp, my tired eyes traced along the path of faint, yet emerging, lines etched around his equally-tired eyes. They'd become a permanent reminder of his e...”

“I love you. I trust you and... I want to be your human canvas!”

“Maybe we choose to stay in a constant state of ignorance as a protective instinct maybe I was just in denial. I just dont get how you can be completely in love with someone one day, and then all o...”

“Imagine," she said, after registering, "a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it'll be sexy." "You'll be so easy," Rashmi said. "Would you like-ah to order-ah the ...”

“Jennifer now understood the meaning of the cadence: the black and white drawing, the watercolor painting,and the notes. The cadence had at last developed into a concerto for violin, the instrument ...”

“I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex.”