“Rereading, we find a new book”

“Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully”

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

“Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?”

“Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.”

“Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”

“For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.”

“I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.”

“How can you know if youre normal when youre always alone? You have no one to compare yourself to. I mean, I have my mom and dad, and Im pretty normal compared to them. But then a lot of people are ...”

“...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are ...”

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”

“But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.”

“The music has teased and tickled me in an empty space that the most vacuous.”

“My life is never empty because my heart is always full.”