You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.

It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.