I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

Strange what love taught you about your faults.

I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer, Dolly, my mother, and the smell of the breadsticks, "and I will sell your firstborn child to the devil.

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his. "Right now," Sam said - and I saw that he held the invoice for today's studio time in his hand, folded into a bird with sun-washed wings - "it's hard to imagine that it is raining anewhere in the world." "From Linger, page 258

He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.