Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

After all this, I won't start to hate you.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is

For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.

I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.