“The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.”

“That is ridiculous," she said.
The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.”

“Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world.
You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail
I'll love always-- the living in the past, the lazy days and
nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.”

“You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.”

“She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to”

“Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.”

“And when you said I could not stay with you. That's not the way you would have wanted to be. ~ "For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is)"”

“When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with…”

“You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.”

“Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.”