“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

“I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”

“Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can n...”

“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”

“But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are ...”

“When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way back to ourselves”

“Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”

“Your sky is full of stars and my arms too short to reach a piece to call my own”