“Happiness is a dog sunning itself on a rock. We were not put on this Earth to be happy. We were put here to experience great things.”

“He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.”

“With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the subway or rushing to a movie, you only saw it for a second, and close up. Now I took a good long look. I'd always heard you couldn't see stars in Manhattan because of all the lights. But here they all were. Here was my night in shining armor.”

“She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.”

“The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.”

“We are all children until our fathers die.”

“i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite. ”