If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

When you really know someone, you can't hate him.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.