There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to joke around with you anymore, because she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It's such a disaster, whenever, in the course of human relationships, someone begins to chisel away at the wall of separation between friendship and kissing.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.