While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.

It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.