“Stop doing that." He motioned at her face. "Don't- Argh! Alright! There's something else. Just turn off the sprinklers.”

“He turned the haggered, haunted face on her and said, "I want you to stop it.""Whatever you're doing....to try to make me like Pilar, it has to stop. Because it's not fair to her. She's upset right now because I'm acting crazy. But I don't want to be with her. It's you I love. And if you want to get rid of me, then tell me, but don't try to foist me off on somebody else.”

“You don't have to wait for happiness, because there's no time but now to be happy. You don't have to go somewhere else, because there's no place but here to find it. You don't have to do something else, because there's nothing more to it. You don't have to get something else, because everything you already have is enough. You just have to be happy. ...”

“He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.”

“We don't have to put up with your snidey remarks, your total slobbiness, your socks that set off the sprinkler system.”

“don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.”