“Love means never having to say you're sorry.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Listen -- I wouldn't ask you." "That, "she replied "is what makes you stupid.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“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.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“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.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“Now would you do me a favor?' From somewhere inside me came this devastating assault to make me cry. But I withstood. I would not cry. I would merely indicate to Jennifer - by the affirmative nodding of my head - that I would be happy to do her any favor whatsoever.
'Would you please hold me very tight?' she asked.
I put my hand on her forearm - Christ, so thin - and gave it a little squeeze.
'No, Oliver,' she said, 'really hold me. Next to me.'I was very, very careful - of the tubes and things - as I got onto the bed with her and put my arms around her.
'Thanks, Ollie.'
Those were her last words.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“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.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“Her handwriting was curious small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“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.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“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.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“Either way I don't come first, which for some stupid reason bothers hell out of me, having grown up with the notion that I always had to be number one. Family heritage, don't you know?”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked.
“Make me”, I replied.
“Beg pardon?”
“Make me”, I repeated.
Her eyes widened like saucers. “You mean like incest?” she asked.
“Don’t give me your family problems, Jen. I have enough of my own.”
“Like what, Oliver?” she asked, “like just what is it he makes you do?”
“The ‘right things’”, I said.
“What’s wrong with the ‘right things’?” she asked, delighting in the apparent paradox.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said.
"Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“I began to think about God. I mean, the notion of a Supreme Being existing somewhere began to creep into my private thoughts. Not because I wanted to strike Him on the face, to punch Him out for what He was about to do to me - to Jenny, that is. No, the kind of religious thoughts I had were just the opposite. Like, when I woke up in the morning and Jenny was there. Still there. I'm sorry, embarrassed even, but I hoped there was a God I could say thank you to.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“Fue entonces cuando la terrorífica verdad empezó a imponèrseme
-¡Jenny, estamos legalmente casados!
-Si, ahora ya puedo comportarme como una perra”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“I didn't know you were related to Sewall Boat House too,' she said.
'Yeah. I come from a long line of wood and stone.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“Voljeti ne znači vječito ponavljati da ti je žao”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“Amar significa nunca tener que decir lo siento”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
“Love Means Not Ever Having To Say You're Sorry.”
― Erich Segal, quote from Love Story
Erich Segal
Born place: in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
Born date June 16, 1937
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Hated her.”
― Tanya Byrne, quote from Heart-Shaped Bruise
“I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.”
― Donald Miller, quote from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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