Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?