“Falling in love is easy, you see; any idiot can do it. It's falling out of love that's hard.”

“The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.”

“Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!”

“He breathed out, not quite a laugh or a sob. "God, yes. Bianca, I love you so much. Even if I never see you again, even if we walk out of here into an ambush you set up with your parents, I am always going to love you.”

“But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.”

“We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.”

“It's not how many times you fall. And it's not how many times you get back up. It's about how much money you have to pay people to admit that the whole incident didn't even occur to begin with.”