“Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.”

“Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.”

“And when love is over when the diner of love seems closed from the outside you want all those hours back along with anything you left at the lover’s house and maybe a couple of things which aren’t technically yours on the grounds that you wasted a portion of your life and those hours have all gone southside.”

“The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.”

“And love, who can say the way it winds.. like a serpent in the garden of our untroubled minds”

“It’s not the makeup and it’s not the way that you dance and this is like love too where there’s only one dancer who will win your contest that night and they are not particularly the best one”

“Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.”