“Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.”

“Every generation that goes into your genes is a generation of fighters, of survivors. And all those millions of lives are in you, in your blood.”

“There are things that, when they break, they keep on functioning, just in some other, lesser way. Like an elevator: it breaks, and it's a room. An escalator: it breaks, and it's stairsThe heart is ...”

“No one is too old for fairy tales.”

“Now I've gone for too longLiving like I'm not aliveSo I'm going to start over tonightBeginning with you and I”

“Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, a...”

“A fresh approach is needed an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didnt understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can...”

“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”