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"You promised York you would stay, didn't you?"

Such detail, such well structured sentences that never leave me wanting to skip to the next few paragraphs; I love the intensity of the book.

OMG yes! He finally agreed for them to go away together.

I think Patrick is more of a selfish prick than Will is, and I hope Louisa ends up with Will. grrr

"When she had achieved almost everything she wanted in life, she had reached the conclusion that her existence had no meaning, because every day was the same. And she had decided to die."

I give up on this one. God.

"I think people expect too much from marriage today," he said. "They expect perfection. Every moment should be bliss. That's TV or movies. But that is not the human experience." (pg. 144)

"He refused to wallow in self-pity. In fact, the worse things got for him, the more intent he seemed on making sure no one around him was saddened by it." (pg. 97)

"It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there." (pg. 82)

"Mitch, that's what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow." (pg. 47)

"Why does knowledge become an article in a journal - or that which fills a book or a publication - except for people to use it? And only when they use it does content become the tool it should be. Not using knowledge is an offence to it. If it cannot fly free beyond the confines of content, knowledge cannot reach its full value through collaboration, correction, inspiration, and use." (pg. 149)

"Lulus peperiksaan adalah satu pencapaian, tetapi jika mendapat A adalah bonus kepada pencapaian tersebut. Namun gagal peperiksaan harus dirai sebagai sebuah percubaan, bukan sebagai petunjuk kegagalan hidupnya." (pg. 112)

"Inilah zamannya untuk bereksperimentasi dengan ideologi dan kebenaran itu sendiri." (pg. 63)

"..tetapi mahasiswa harus sedar bahawa masyarakat lebih memerlukan mereka ketika mereka sibuk berpersatuan untuk mengadakan kursus kahwin." (pg. 29)

And I thought that my life was messed up.