The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.
Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?