There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

Your only shame is to have shame.