The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

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

You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy.