“I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back.”
“Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.”
“Little girl, little boy
If love has a way
Fill their fields with laughter
And scatter the sun on their day
And if it should happen to rain
Make their raindrops kisses
Straight from heaven above
That touch their hands and faces
And that fill them with love
And make the moon reflect their smiles
And their stars plenty
And, above all, keep them together
And hold them as you may
Forever and ever
Until their last day.”
“She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.”
“She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.”
“I’ll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.”
“Because I see
A rainstorm in June
Just before the sun
The black of night
Just before the stars
And, girl, I see your ghost
Just before our dawn”
“All I could do was escape from reality, but every time I tried to escape from the pain, that same pain told me that I had probably been falling in love with him.”
“Your personality is a result of your preferences, such as your inclination to introversion or extroversion. However, like IQ, personality can’t be used to predict emotional intelligence.”
“When a man is kind to dumb animals, I always say he has got some good in him.”
“There must be a God because you are the Devil.”
“IRWIN: At the time of the Reformation there were fourteen foreskins of Christ preserved, but it was thought that the church of St John Lateran in Rome had the authentic prepuce.
DAKIN: Don't think we're shocked by your mention of the word 'foreskin', sir.
CROWTHER: No, sir. Some of us even have them.
LOCKWOOD: Not Posner, though, sir. Posner's like, you know, Jewish.
It's one of several things Posner doesn't have.
(Posner mouths 'fuck off.')”
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