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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.