"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
"I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours."
"I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars."
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."
"The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children."
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"