“We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.”

“Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.”

“Some things belong to the past.”

“Dont we have to live a little first? And read later?”

“Im not just a face, or a body. Im a Havisham.”

“Why dyou think she did it?I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldnt know.A broken heart, I suggested.Do people suffer so much?For love? Oh, I imagine so.To drown herself?Why ...”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”