What better place to kill time than a library?

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.