“I have to go. I have to be brave.”

“It is brave to believe that you are a unique, precious young lady no matter what your feelings might be saying.”

“I am not afraid of the dark. And you shouldn't be either.”

“I guess I need to leave it up to the Great Magician, as Harry would say.”

“The best part of being unique is not having to be perfect.”

“Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling bored.”

“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.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”