“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”

“Thats life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like its nothing. If you ask me I dont think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. Thats ...”

“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”

“Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?”

“Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fideli...”

“Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”