“I love you with an awful intensity. Sometimes when I just sit in a trance staring at a piece of paper, pen poised and immovable, longing for you and remembering you and imagining you. I love you horribly and beautifully.”

“Girl, you are wiser than your years.”“Actually, Randall, I’m just older than I look.”

“Love is waiting for you, but you might need to wait until tomorrow.”

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”

“Every time you pitch yourself back into the past, you lose time. Have you so much of it to spare, my love?”

“I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.”

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”