“Magnus remembered a town in Peru whose Quechua name meant quiet place. He recalled even more vividly being obscenely drunk and unhappy over his heartbreak of that time, and the maudlin thoughts tha...”

“I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.”

“Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.”

“My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.”

“I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.”

“In two words," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.”

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”

“Its bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys games and work and manners!”

“Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”

“Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.”

“Girls get screwed.Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feelcheap for doingexactly what they b...”

“Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”