“I don't write romance novels.”

“I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.”

“It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.”

“It's hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won't be able to. So I spend all my time at school thinking about her, wishing I could see her right then, but when I get to her house, I don't know what to say.”

“everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition.”

“For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.”

“So loving to my mother,That he might not beteem the winds of heaven,Visit her face' too roughly.”

“Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.”