“Your whole world ceases to exist and you're nothing but a shell of a person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it her way, me in mine, and you in yours," he said, lifting his hand off of John's...”

“Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.”

“Still trying to save the world? Always, I said, and in case you havent noticed, its working. The world is still here.”

“My dad had once told me, crimson-red deep in the talk, that with sons, all he had to worry about was one penis, but with a daughter, he had to worry about everyone elses.”

“Everyone was going crazy, like theyd just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.”

“...and specimens like this confirmed there had been some kind of divine rule in the universe because no natural selection process was up to the task of creating something like him. This was some go...”

“There are no crash courses on enlightenment, you only crash in a course like that.”

“Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.”

“Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“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...”