A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

Death hath no dominion.

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn’t being naked, not really. It’s just showing skin.