The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.