I thought I wanted caprice and fire, but it turns out that what I really want is someone who will wake me up early so I don't miss a sunrise.

You're baking?""Yes.""It's almost midnight.""I specialize in late-night kitchen disasters.

You're the one I like. Maybe love.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, I really like you. A lot. But if you don't feel the same way about me, it's okay. Because you're really important to me, and I hope we can still be friends.

He turned around and I felt the shards of my broken heart crumble to dust.

Well, in that case, no. I’m not your father. But if you go with another definition, meaning ‘a man who wants to be in your life and help raise you, ’ then yes. I am.

Hey, I just thought of something.""What?""When we're together, we make one whole Italian.

George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you.

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined.

Tyson thought Annabeth was just about the coolest thing since peanut butter, and he SERIOUSLY loved peanut butter.

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.