Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right