“Young men ... learn practical skills that set is in good stead for lives as the husbands of wealthy and educated women: Strong Handshakes, Silence, Rudimentary Car Mechanics, How to Mow the Lawn, E...”

“Im never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a we...”

“I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You...”

“So she quit working to make sense of things we dont realise it, but its hard work we do almost every waking moment, building out thoughts and memories and actions around time, things that happened ...”

“He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.”

“[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THATS EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]”

“The difference between what you expect and what you get is the problem.”

“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you...”

“Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”

“For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.”

“I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.”

“No one is perfect but someone is original.”