“I’ve never written for kids… I’m just trying to tap into the kid in myself & just go with my taste.”

“Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.”

“Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like that, you don't ask what you did to deserve it. You just hope she never wises up and changes her mind.”

“They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.”

“My shift isn’t over until six,” I say glumly.“Hold on,” he says. He pulls a Blackberry from his coat pocket and taps out a text. It buzzes, and he taps out another text before stashing it back in his pocket. “I think you can take the rest of the afternoon off.”“I only have a week left, but my boss would kill me,” I say.“I’m your boss, Anna.”“What do you mean?”There’s that smile again, the one with all those teeth. “I just bought Walmart,” he says.”

“Libby was more beautiful than any movie star. She just didn’t know it, which he loved about her.”

“Becoming an adult is all about accepting that you didn't know anything when you were a kid.”