“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.”

“That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had go...”

“It always took my breath away, he said, that the five of us could have found one anotheragainst such odds, through all the layers of armored fortifications each of us had set up Do you see now why ...”

“Weve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, were so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it.”

“Throughout history--even a hundred years ago, even fifty--it was discontent that was considered the threat to society, the defiance of natural law, the danger that had to be exterminated at all cos...”

“Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. Th...”

“I will insist you be man enough to take it. I wont have you making light of my feelings, or making light of yourselfas if youre not worthy of them. Because you are worthy, Colin. Youre a generous, ...”

“I look at you and my heart pounds, when for years, I don't think it beat at all. You fill the cracks and crevices, take away the emptiness. And when you're not by my side, the loss is unimaginable.”

“Why do yo keep doing this?""Because I've wanted to be with you for three years, okay? That's why.”

“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...”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”