Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life