“Do you think we can be friends? I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. Probably not, but we can pretend.”

“Hed used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.”

“I noticed him right away. No, it wasnt his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasnt the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, h...”

“but remember, nothing comes without a price. Our paths are not mapped; theyre made.”

“If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.”

“Technology doesnt change peoples basic needs or their natures.”

“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

“When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people.”

“Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get i...”

“Alice suspected Paul couldnt really picture his father, just like she couldnt picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.”

“I want, I dont want.How can one live with such a heart?”