Or is it that I think too much?

There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you.

How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?

When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.