Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.

But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.