“Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.”

“If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.”

“Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.”

“I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.”

“In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.”

“All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.”

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”

“I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," ...”

“This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.”

“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...”

“And what of this young woman beside him, whom he had loved devotedly for four years and still did love? She had given him more than Elizabeth ever could: months of unflawed relationship, unquestion...”

“God, thought Ross, it does work, and unfairly; but I want her, not any other, not the most beautiful eighteen-year-old damsel born out of a sea-shell, not the most seductive houri of any sultan's h...”

“I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?”