Don't confuse honours with achievement.

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

You're a library of me.

And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.