“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.”

“She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.”

“He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her dreams were his dreams, and her blood was his blood, and when her heart stopped he knew that h...”

“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”

“It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.”

“And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”

“Is this the girl?” Kieran’s voice was very different: It sounded like waves sliding up the shore. Like warm water under pale light. It was seductive, with an edge of cold. He looked at Emma...”