"Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on."

"I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?"

"If she were running through the rye, if she were headed towards the abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of my strength, with every scared beat of my heart, with every thought that could only be for her. And if I were to be running the same way, I'd like to think she'd do the same. But maybe her hands would be busy holding the book. Maybe she wouldn't see me, too intent on looking for Phoebe from the carousel. Or waiting for Holden to hold her, to wrap her in the pages of his arms, to say she was the only one who truly knew him, as I plunged past her, sad to be leaving, and a little happy to be away."

"Our moments are music, and sometimes " just sometimes " we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn't have music, I don't think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn't have special moments, we would never find music."

"Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take."

"You live each day one at a timeyou live every day all at onceyou live with the possibility of good-byeyou move on."

"Failure is always louder than success. But there is an accumulation of all the things you don't do wrong, and that becomes your confidence. You can even get to the point where that confidence lasts longer than the dance. Seconds at first. Then minutes. Then maybe it'll be there when you're walking into a party, or meeting people after a show. You know you have something desirable, and you know you can move."

"He counts as an ex because he made me feel dumped even without making me feel loved first."

"But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment."

"I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing."

"If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it."

"What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realize why people believe in dA©jA vu, why people believe they've lived past lives, because there is no way the years I've spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what I'm feeling. The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations-all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In you heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are now just arriving at the place you were always meant to be."

"So that's what we did - rocketing down Sixth Avenue, dashing around the rest of the post-concert crowd, splashing our tracks until our ankles were soaked. You took the lead, and I started to lose my sprint. But then you looked back, stopped, and waited for me to catch up, for me to take your hand, for us to continue to run in the rain, drenched and enchanted, my words to Amanda no longer feeling like a requirement, but a foretelling."

"He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things."

"Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find."

"You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you."

"There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it-you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lovers' face."

"It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel."

"If you're not able to laugh inside a sex shop,then you probably shouldn't be there.I mean, they don't call it fooling around for nothing."

"It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face."