Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

He who hesitates is lost

This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.