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They were people whose lives were sliw, who did not see themselves growing old, ir falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to undue the burden of the past.

Thank God! Dr. Urbino is back in a flashback. I loved him and hated when he died trying to catch the parrot. Best line yet-since I love the doctor: "Today when I saw you, I realized what is between us is an illusion." Such is young love.

"But Florentine Ariza always said that God had made the sea to look through the window, and he had never learn to swim.

Nothing disturbed their dreams.

It was the year they fell into devastating love.

"Only God knows how much I loved you."

At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, and if he did all he could to keep those threads and intact, it was because of his terror of not finding God in the darkness of death. -Gabriel Marquez

Have faith in what lies around the corner. It may be a life saver. If all else fails, I will float on my back.

love this book!!

Okay!! Gearing up for book three that I have read of Matthew Quick. Sorta Like A Rock Star may be the best title yet...EVER.♡ 5 STAR starting on that alone.

I am sorry you had to eat your pet rabbits and were unsuited by aliens.

It felt comforting, just having people around me--like being wrapped in a warm blanket with a cup of hot chocolate in your hands during a fierce winter night.

God speaks to all if us, but He says more to some than others.

But courage never comes.

Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.

How is it possible a book can be better the second time you read it? Blown away by the deepness this novel took me inside my heart. This book was so much more unnerving and compelling than the movie and I loved the movie, too. The ending made me cry. That last long paragraph where Pat finally realizes Tiffany loves him for who he is...flaws and all. Just broken to pieces by it. Lovely.♡

Life is hard,Pat, and children have to be told how hard life can be.

Take what he gives you and be happy--that is what we do right?

I am so happy I alter my route and run at least 15 miles instead of ten, and when the sun sets, the clouds in the west are all lined with electricity, which I know is a good omen.

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

Our life is ours. It is the only one we will ever have. And we should love it. -Rob Lowe

Like mt son Johnowen in Little League, you've gotta run hard on the base paths; we wonder in the wilderness so the road can bring us home.

Sometimes you have to get fired to get hired.

And that in the end, one's personal reality is the only one that really matters.

It is impossible to play "a martyred hero." But it is possible to play a man.

my words...actually teary eyed...during chapter where he has oldest son off to college. My son is a freshman. I am closing in on three years to that day... being a parent is the best thing that ever happened to me besides marrying my husband.....I love what this book makes me feel.

Never compare your insides to someone else's outsides.

"Remember me with a rose," he said to her.