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“These are my car wineglasses. I always carry a pair.”

"The people I admire the most are those who have the courage, foresight and ability to see themselves with cold-eyed honesty and fundamentally change themselves. Those who, with no guarantees of greater success or happiness, find it in themselves to completely alter the course of their lives to follow what is oftentimes just a small voice telling them that they can do better. That they can be better."

“Never compare your insides to someone else’s outsides.”

“But maybe that’s where love grows best—in the deep space that exists between polarities.”

“Because that’s all we can do: carry the sorrow when we have to, and absolutely savor the joy when we can. Life is always, always both.”

“It’s the trying that heals you. That’s all you have to do. Just try.”

“And I gave you Jake because you absolutely never believe in yourself —and he finds a way to believe in you every damn day.”

“Naturally we price the goods we’re offered. We’re forced to pay so much more heavily for our sins than men.”

“When you attain my age you will understand one of life’s great secrets: Luxury is best appreciated in small portions. When it becomes routine it loses its allure.”

“I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there, I did not die.”

“It’s the only part of death we can control. The farewell.”

“By the time we stepped out of the cab a few minutes later, I had slowed to counting just my own breaths, slow and even. Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can’t wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can’t.”

“One of them sent you her address and suggested you come to her house and do things to her that were so lewd, I wrapped up a bar of Ivory and sent it to her with a note that said, ‘Please use this to wash your whore mouth out with soap, regards, Myrtle.’”

“Ladies are never angry.” I was livid.

“Ladies are never angry.” I was livid.

“Are you a witch?” “Yes, I am,” I told him, enjoying the moment. “I practice a specialized kind of witchcraft called thinking. It’s a very mysterious power. Quite unknown to the average person.”

“Sometimes books don’t find us until the right time.”

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before—you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”

“It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life. I’m glad to see you’re taking the same comfort.”

“There’s strength in being who you are and feeling what you feel and not giving a shit what people think.”

“Your now is not your forever.”

“Oh sure, MTV hit the scene in 1981, but we couldn’t watch it because of the devil. Apparently we could watch a show starring two outlaw brothers, their half-naked cousin, and a car painted with the Confederate flag but couldn’t watch Madonna sing “Like a Virgin” because we might get secondhand pregnant.”

“It’s Lennox, isn’t it? From Lennox Farm? He’s dead old,” said Ainslee. “He’s in his early thirties!” “Yeah. Really, really old.”

“...I must say, very few things give me greater pleasure than calling someone an assclown when they really fit the bill. I love it more than puppies and baby seals.”

“I do it for the dead, Miss Littleton, and for those left behind. And when I’ve done my job, Justice has to carry the weight.”

“Have you been frontally lobotomized or what?!”

“When it’s right it’s never too late, when it’s wrong it’s always too soon,”

“Why is everybody so interested in pairing people up? Is there an ark somewhere I overlooked?"