For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.