A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make