Without pain, we couldn't know joy.

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.

Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day.

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid - the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.