Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

She knew few words and believed in none.