“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.”

“A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.”

“Tall, aren't you?" she said.
"I didn't mean to be."
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.”

“She didn't bother to understand it all; it was--boring boring boring.”

“She rings like a bell through the night
And wouldn't you love to love her?”

“She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.”

“She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.”

“-"Nick?"
"I'm still here, Laurant."
-"Did you tell Tommy we slept together?"
"No, but you just did. He's standing right here."
She fell asleep. But this time she didn't have any dreams or nightmare.”

“You notice for the first time that she has freckles. You didn't know they still made them.”

“Single Mind:
If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway.”