I want my words to survive translation.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody's head.

Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.

You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?