He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not sure if she means "O" for Owen, or just plan "Oh." He is not sure what difference it would make in either case. He feels the needs to clarify. "When I said 'I like you very much,' I actually meant 'I love you.'" "O," she says, "I actually meant the same thing." She closes the car door behind her. "Well," he says to himself, driving back to his apartment, "isn't that something?

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life