“...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.”

“I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.”

“I don't know much,But when push comes to shove, I definitely don't believe,There's such a thing as wrong love.”

“When push comes to shove, I’m going to figure out that this door needs to be pulled to be opened.”

“When push comes to shove, a mother takes care of her children from the bottom up.”

“When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.”