“… i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through”

“I love you' I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face… My fear was a greater one--that she won't say it back.”

“As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.”

“as she
drove me through the hills everything screamed inside of
me, and I kept saying as we drove along
(to myself, of course)
fucker, it will pass,
everything passes,
it's all a joke
a joke on you”

“I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”

“Love dries up, I thought
as I walked back to the
bathroom, even faster
than sperm.”

“If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.”

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”

“But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.”

“I knew then that Jocelyn would never come back to me, because of you. You are the only thing in the world she ever loved more than she loved me. And because of that she hates me. And because of that, I hate the sight of you”