“You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your family marry to be still richer? People who know in what their main excellence consists are not to be ...”

“I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen”

“How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.”

“O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!”

“...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist!”

“And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and tro...”

“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.”