I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.