Quotes from book

Adverbs

“It was the sort of day when people walk in the park and solve problems. "We'll simply call the taxi company, David, and request a large one, like one of those vans." Is the sort of thing you would overhear if you were overhearing in the park.”

“"I know" Helena said and this is another example of why behave this way? Things just poured out of her mouth lately, like vomit, and sometimes it actually was.”

“She said, "We're detectives" in the tone of voice that someone might say, "Making you happy isn't making me happy"”

“judgmentally, judgmentally, judgmentally I would believe in you and sword fight others who did not, any necessary sacrifice if you were in the mood for that.”

“This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.”

“This world is suchier than we are, and the best thing to do is keep moving and find your keys.”

“Yeah, I have a question," said the guy with the wicked eyes… "My question is, I quit. I'm going to quit.”

“This is love, moving to where the money is, and all the while a volcano or an ex-girlfriend might blow the whole thing to hell, as the Americans say. As everybody says.”

“[she] gave me a puzzled frown like she thought offhand i was dead but the media's so unreliable these days.”

“Over the years they had developed a layer of sincerity over the irony over the sincerity. It was an irony sandwich, then, which tasted mostly like sincerity, like a cheap, bad sandwich.”

“That's always where the love goes, with somebody else away from me.”

“"I love you, too" David said and took the bottle.
"I want you to love me in particular," Helena said”

“The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.”

“Allison squinted at the strange, catastrophic sky, and took another step, another step, another step, because in the future - she could see it - this would not be happening.”

“Wedding after wedding after wedding and then yours - your wedding? Would that make you what they're now calling happy?”

“God, or somebody, what is it with terrible things? If you made this world why not a better one?”

“South San Francisco The Industrial City is ugly as sin but somebody lives there: Allison, in fact.”

“… the point is, why is there cruelty? Why do people ask other people to do impossible things? why behave this way? why is there mean, when there are better things than mean, love particularly?”

“I find you interesting, Joe, so nearly everything you say will be interesting too. I love you. I could say I'm lonely but that's not the only reason.”