Nobody teaches life anything.

Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.