Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.

I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.

This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.