And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

love means to see the one you love happy

No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.

because everybody lies. It's part of living in society .