We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired. "No, I'm not," she replied. "Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.