There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

What good were real feelings anyway?

I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: She hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from.

Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".

You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.