You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

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.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.