“We must not wait to be happy. We have to start right now, right this very second.”

“It's like Thomas Aquinas told Charlemagne in an overpriced bistro in Nice: "You never realize how much shit you have until you have to move it all.”

“Are we getting close to a rest stop?" Loerlai wants to know."We just stopped an hour ago!" Michael protests from the driver's seat."Well, gee, my apologies for being the only one on this trip with female issues," she spits back hostilely.”

“I’m so ashamed. The second she told me she had some feelings for me I dropped my pants.” -from The Haze”

“You know, me finding the perfect dress is more about you than it is about me." "Oh yeah? How's that?""My plan, you see, is to scour the city for just the right dress that will make it absolutely impossible for you to resist me. You'll simply be at my mercy the entire night."Trent frowns, "How is that different from any other time we're together?”

“In some ways, my mother was right; a tree does look the same from the top as it does from the bottom: same branches, starting as weighty limbs and narrowing to the tiniest twigs; same leaves, quivering in the slightest breeze or in the rush of the trains; same colors, same rustling, same gentle sway. But from earth, looking up, a tree is hopeful; it might be touching the sky. From above, looking down, you can see--it's stuck in the dust, just like us.”

“You have my heart, but I won’t be some pathetic fool that comes when you wiggle your finger.”