Levi's smile broke free and devoured his whole face. It started to devour her face, too. Cath had to look away.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.

So many questionsbut nothing to say, in this current momentwe are still so farfrom the answers.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

I do think I am a country boy at heart. I love the buzz of towns and going out with friends and sitting with them drinking and whatever - it's fun - but, at the same time, I like space and freedom.