When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.