Well she was an American girl, raised on promises. She couldn't help thinkin' that there was a little more to life somewhere else. After all, it was a great big world with lots of places to run to. Yeah, and if she had to die tryin', she had one little promise she was gonna keep.

There is no sense in pretending, your eyes give you away. Something inside you is feeling like I do, we've said all there is to say.

And for one desperate moment there he crept back in her memory. God it's so painful, something that's so close is still so far out of reach.

It's alright if you love me, it's alright if you don't. I'm not afraid of you runnin' away, honey I get the feeling you won't.

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

When I was fifteen and had quit school forever, I went to work in a vineyard near Sanger with a number of Mexicans, one of whom was only a year or two older th…

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.