Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.

Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.