If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.

It seems to me that oftentimes in young relationships once there's a problem of some significance then it's almost like they're both racing for the dumper buzzer.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.