“He knew that hed known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imag...”

“What to do with the past? There was so much of it.”

“Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.”

“The advice he reads in Ann Landers good advice as long as you dont need it, perfectly sensible as long as you dont have any use for it.”

“Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what weve got.”

“However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“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...”