“She hasn't known many Southerners. That twang and aw-shucks about him--it's sort of exotic.”

“It occurs to me that I've been wrong about something: I always assumed that age and experience weather you, make you more resilient. But that's not true. It's the opposite.”

“She is a wonderful nerd, and he hopes this won't change.”

“She doesn't remember the twentieth century. Isn't that terrifying?”

“So why do you kiss someone?" she asks. "To give pleasure or to take it?”

“Don't people drown their sorrows in things like scotch? Not strawberry whatever-it's-called.”

“You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.”