“Love, Ada thought out on the lake that first spring afternoon, is largely a matter of paying attention and good timing.”

“First rule of a good shrink is probably to pay attention to the whining.”

“Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.”

“There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention”

“The best thing about recess is that it doesn't matter if you are having trouble paying attention in class--suddenly, you are paying attention to a million things on the playground.”

“It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that we loved. I think that we must have loved each other all our lives, and that each succeeding spring was a word in the revelation of that love, not to be understood until, in the fullness of time, the whole sentence was written out in that most beautiful of all beautiful springs.”