"I could hear her kissing her fingers and then blowing. (...) I blew her a kiss back." (73)
"...I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough..." (109)
"I always wanted to kiss him, but was afraid thathe would laugh at me." (78)
"Can i watch you kiss? Can you watch us kiss? You can tell me where you are going to kiss, and i could hide and watch." (80)
“Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.” (99)
"Could we kiss for a little bit?" "Excuse me?" she said , although, on the other, hand, she didn't pull her head back. "It's just that I like you, and I think I can tell that you like me." (99)
- I found this sort of funny for a nine-year old wanting to kiss a forty-eight- year old woman that he's only know for five minutes.
“I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run into each other, I like the kissing and the crying [...]"
“..Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it..” (114)
"...I bled a little flower on the page on which I should have seen her kissing somebody, but this was all I saw:...I wanted to cry but I didn't.
"She said, 'If you want to kiss me, you can.' 'What?' 'You asked me, that day we met, if we could kiss. I said no then, but I am saing yes now.' 'I'm embarrassed about that day.' 'There's no reason to be embarrassed.' 'You don't have to let me kiss you just because you feel sorry for me.' ' Kiss me,' she said, 'and I'll kiss you back.' I asked her, 'What if we just hugged?'"(290)