“Lots of things should be, but aren't.”

“Some people don't like to remember," Vincent said. "Not even the good things?" "Especially not the good things.”

“Sometimes late and never amount to the same thing. Sometimes, it has to be now or never.”

“The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.”

“Henry told me he is often the life of the party, as if he didn't already know that to be the life of the party is the most sad and pathetic of all things to be.”

“The end of all things--a book, a life, a summer, a marriage, the last bite of cake, the last of innocence lost, a love affair--is always sad, at least a little bit sad, because it is the end, the end of that.”

“Semille wept not because she did something stupid; she wept because she *didn't* do something stupid. Sometimes, to do something stupid--to disobey your parents, to rush into battle, to speak out of turn, to ruin your life--is a far better thing to do than to do nothing at all.”