“You're not trying to pick up a girl?""I wasn't.”

“Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.”

“Then, like I wasn't thrown enough, Cal leaned down and picked up a potted African violet on the low table next to the sofa and brought it over to me. For a second, I wondered if this was his socially awkward way of trying to give me flowers.”

“You're an asshole, you know that?' I asked him. It figured he would pick today to be funny and personable, but I wasn't in the mood.He smiled. 'I know. I work really hard at it.”

“there wasn't use trying to talk with a girl just because of something she'd said to me in a dream”

“Still waking up in the mornings with shaking hands And I'm trying to find a girl who understands me But except in dreams you're never really free”