They say everyone needs something to love.

I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.