Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

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

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

None of us are what we once were.