It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness

I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

‎''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible.