“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”

“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ”

“If good stuff happened to us until we died it wouldn't be called Life. It would be called Great.”

“You become a parent, and your whole life becomes about worrying. You just worry constantly whether they'll be okay. And the idea that I'll be worried forever about them and what they do...I almost have a panic attack when I think about it. I'm worried, and I'm worried about having to worry so goddamn much.”

“A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?- Then I shall build you wings.”

“If this love is what we say it is, I know we will go far and with a girl as sweet as you there is not much else I can do but fall for you.”

“Okay," I confessed. "You got me. I don't want to die. I'm terrified of death. I fear there's nothing beyond it and that this existence is the only one I'll ever possess. That's why I'm here."He patted my leg to give me reassurance. "That's why they're all here. Even the ones that believe in heaven and seventy-two virgins and every other good thing supposedly waiting for them in the afterlife.”