“We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.”

“Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.”

“Thats what friends are for, Sheba”

“Some things belong to the past.”

“Dont we have to live a little first? And read later?”

“Im not just a face, or a body. Im a Havisham.”

“We speak the truth because we live in truth.”

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”

“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”

“Im addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.”

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”