Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.

I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.