We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

But just suddenly I really, really needed to see you again right that minute, that night.

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.