“Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?”

“I wanted someone to hold me close so I slide across and snuggled in tight and said, 'Hold me.' He did, and it was tender and truly sweet, but without a trace of that wild carnal edge you would have to cross if you want to get so close together you can't tell each other apart.I pushed it. I said, 'I want to get closer. I want you to love who I am.' Love doesn't do much for the powers of explanation, but since Love has never asked for one itself, that seems fair enough.”

“it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.”

“He wasn't the least bit disturbed that his intuition was wrong: intuition often missed, sometimes spectacularly, but when it connected it saved so much time that the spirit leaped forward ... and, of course, there was no use denying the basic human delight in being right the first time.”

“The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.”

“you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing.”

“you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years.”