You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

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.

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