The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.

You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.