“to a person zoning out- "your display is on screen saver”

“you make me feel intelligent, especially when you talk”

“Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You don’t fall in love; you get trampled by it.”

“It was as if every day a piece of my heart was plucked out by birds and carried away little by little.”

“Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood. Somewhere in there, between childhood and adulthood, the ability to distinguish right versus wrong is born.”

“...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.”

“Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”