She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.

I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.