“When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.”

“She allowed me to understand I'd done everything I could for her, and that I, and everyone who loved her, had to step away and go on living.Now I know what she wanted from me on the day she told me...”

“Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned.”

“I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found.""That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.”

“He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.”

“James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once ...”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”