Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.

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