“I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.”

“She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.”

“Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.”

“Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to find all the drivers were new. It wasn't like a square dance, where you miraculously end up with your original partner, laughing and feeling giddily relieved to find him after dancing with everyone else in the world. Instead, they swung around and kept on going, some people were at work by now, or halfway to the airport. In fact, driving might be the thing most opposite of dancing.”

“And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. I promise you that wasn't it. Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough. Four hundred. Not enough.”

“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.”

“I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.”