“Stop fussing, honey. It won't be the first time James has seen a man's stomach."It's not the first time I've seen that one, thought James.”
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
“No man has seen God. No man has seen Lucifer. No man that I've ever talked to! It's just a useful way of looking at the world. And seeing into it. ”
“I'd love it if the first time I spent the night with a girl it was because she was tired," James says. "I'd love it if it were you.”
“But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action.”
“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to.”