Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.