Will Brenner

“I knew her like a book. I really did. I mean, besides checkers, she was quite fond of all athletic sports, and after I got to know her, the whole summer long we played tennis together almost every morning and golf almost every afternoon. I really got to know her quite intimately. I don't mean it was anything physical or anything―it wasn't―but we saw each other all the time. You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“When the cracks split in the road are all you've seen, you either live it up or you don't live it down. So don't go giving up or let it bring you down.”
― dan nigro

“Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Halfway to Miami International, comfortably away from the switchboard where Queems or Queems’s toadies were known to listen in, Hallorann stopped at a shopping center Laundromat and called United Air Lines. Flights to Denver? There was one due out at 6:36 P.M. Could the gentleman make that? Hallorann looked at his watch, which showed 6:02, and said he could.”
― Stephen King, The Shining