And trust dies from ifs and buts

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

I cannot live without reading.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made.