“Because you are beauty personified. You are enchanting and I am defenseless to resist.”

“You are simply a dream... and I am tired of dreaming.”

“I can only take one step at a time, whether I am running or living. Today is a good day. This is my life and it's happening now.”

“Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.”

“I love you, he thought, because you are honest with me and because you are willing to speak the truth to me when others might seek to curry favor instead. I love you because you are in this bed with me, not trying to conceive the much-awaited next generation of Windhams, but just holding my hand.”

“You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.”

“my stomach holds at least a thousand hours' worth of swallowed sentences, but these days they want out.”