“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“I had an inheritance from my father,It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world,The spending of its never done.”

“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett aga...”

“I didn't want to kiss you goodbye that was the trouble I wanted to kiss you good night and there's a lot of difference.”

“Im so fucking tired of being alone. I was scared that hed tell me to fucking leave. Because that means going back to a life I cant see for myself anymore.”

“I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.”

“I had always thought that I was fine with being alone. Halfway through high school, I moved from Brazil to America, and it took me forever to make friends. I had culture shock of virtually every ki...”

“You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.”

“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.”

“No one knew much about the Twenty-Eighth Infantry. It was not a glamour outfit. They knew about the Big Red One and the Screaming Eagles, about the Eighty-Second Airborne and Hell On Wheels, but no...”

“I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.”