We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

There are people you remember and people you dream of.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.

Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.