Let me just tell you this , watanabe , " said midori , pressin her cheek against my neck . " a real , live girl , with real , live blood gushing through my veins . you ' re holding me in your arms and i ' m telling you that i love you . i ' m ready to do anything you tell me to do . i may
be a little bit mad , but i ' m a good girl , and honest , and i work hard , i ' m kind of cute , i have nice boobs , i ' m a good cook , and my father left me a trust fund . i mean , i ' m a real bargain , don ' t you think ? if you don ' t take me , i ' ll end up going somewhere else .

" you know , they ' ve got these chocolate assortments , and you like some but you don ' t like others ? and you eat all the ones you like , and the only ones left are the ones you dont like as much ? i always think about that when something painful comes up . now i just have to polish these off , and everything ' ll be ok . life is a box of chocolates . "

i really like you , midori . a lot
“ How much is a lot?”
“ Like a spring bear,” i said.
" a spring bear ? " midori looked up again . " what ' s that all about a spring bear .
" you ' re walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring , and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along . and he says to you , hi there , little lady . want to tumble with me ? " so you and the bear cub spend the whole day in each other ' s arms tumbling down this clover - covered hill nice , huh ?
“Yeah. Really nice

No way , " i said with a laugh . " nobody eats that stuff because they like it ; they eat it because they can ' t afford anything else.”

" That's the kind of death that frightens me . the shadow of death slowly , slowly eats away at the region of life , and before you know it everything ' s dark and you can t see , and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive . i hate that . i couldn ' t stand it.

gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do

nobody likes being alone . i just hate to be disappointed .

if you only read the books that everyone else is reading , you can only think what everyone else is thinking . that ' s the world of hicks and slobs .