“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”

“A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be n...”

“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”

“Candide, who trembled like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery.”

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

“It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.”

“Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.”

“My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and heres how I can tell: because I did not demand that he become my ...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”