“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”

“The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.”

“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but theres only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy theres no reason...”

“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment and it helped me. It has always helped me. ”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”