“I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play .”

“I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.”

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”

“You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head.“Because they end too early,” she continues. “They always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life.”

“Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.”

“I pop a cassette into the Buick's stereo. It's the Ramones. I turn the volume up high and roll down the windows. The highway air tastes of fumes, but it still feels goddamn good to breathe”

“I fear you may have matriculated at the Humphrey Tonkin School ofNonpartisan Debate. I do not, however, have a sense that you were his starpupil.”