“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how...”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

“She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it d...”

“You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the...”

“One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.”

“I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, t...”