"You learn what you need to kill and take care of the details. It's like changing a tire. The first time you're careful. By the thirtieth time, you can't remember where you left the lug wrench."

“Oh, and welcome to the Three.”

“I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.”

“I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!”

“The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.”

“And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.”

Source : Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.15, Harper Collins

“This is my chance to make it all happen, in the one city, where they say dreams come true.”

“But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.”

“The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.”

Source : "A Diplomatic History of the American People". Book by Thomas A. Bailey, 7th ed., p. 17, 1940.