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

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.