"Forgive me for my grandiosity, and for my occasional bursts of self-pity."

"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."

"I’m not a romantic, I’m a realist. I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in right now."

"I'm not interested in happy endings. I'm interested in true endings."

"France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of an idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves of Massachusetts and the cherry blossoms of Washington, and…"