A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

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.