Quotes from book

Love Story

“The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.”

“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?”

“What the hell makes you smart?" I asked.
"I wouldn't go for coffee with you."
"Listen - I wouldn't ask you."
"That," she replied, "is what makes you stupid.”

“Jenny, if you're so con­vinced I'm a loser, why did you bull­doze me into buy­ing you cof­fee?'

She looked me straight in the eye and smiled.

'I like your body,' she said.”

“And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.”

“Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.”

“You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­damn life.'

'Yeah,' I said, re­cov­er­ing the power of speech. 'When I met you.”

“He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment.
"Which one is that?" I asked her.
"Do not bullshit thy father," she said.”

“I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.”

“What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ.
"Sonovabitch."
"To his face?" she asked.
"I never see his face."
"He wears a mask?"
"In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.”

“There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.”