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

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.

This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

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.