He'd mistaken loneliness for independence, and had become so good at closing himself off from the world that it took an e-mail to remind him what it was like to have a real conversation.

Do you ever feel like what's happening at this moment will never happen again? Like you could never repeat it, no matter how hard you tried?

—Jennifer E. Smith in Field Notes on Love

Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.

—Jennifer E. Smith in The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Look what a hard time I've given him. But no matter how many times I've pushed him away, he always comes back around again. And I wouldn't want it any other way.

—Jennifer E. Smith in The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

There's a kind of unfamiliar electricity that goes through her at the nearness of him, and she can't help wondering if he feels it, too.

—Jennifer E. Smith in The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

That's the thing about flying: you could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see him again.

—Jennifer E. Smith

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

—Stephen Levine

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

—Elizabeth Drew

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

—Dame Rose Macaulay

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

—James McNeill Whistler