A Complicated Kindess by Miriam Toews

"My dad loved the shit out of her and hardly ever knew what to say to her and she loved the shit right back out of him and filled the silent parts of their lives with books and coffee and other things."

"The gap between our feelings, his and mine, on that particular point was immeasurable."

"It may have been the light at 5:36 on a June evening or it may have been the smell of dust combined with sprinkler water or the sound of the neighbour kid screaming I'll kill you but suddenly it was like I was dying, the way I missed her."

"Relationships were so easy when all you had to work on was standing up together."

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."

"What we feel now is the sense of all the gorgeous youth that has rioted through here in two hundred years."

"With her his imagination ran riot and that is why they rode to the highest hill and watched an evil moon ride high, for they knew then that they could see the devil in each other."

"The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last -- the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't."

"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."