“Success seems to be largely a matterof hanging on after others have let go.”

“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”

“If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.”

“Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend”

“A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.”

“Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.”

“Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission”

“The truth of the story lies in the details.”

“The details of life have a tendency to interfere with the actual living of life.”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”