But because of you, I learned to love and not fear. Because of you, I can be loved and not be tormented. Because of you, I feel like a woman and not a victim.

In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.

My past made me a stronger and wiser person because I learned from its valuable lessons without dwelling on regrets and excuses.

This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move, to be around her.

Happiness is when you see your husband's old girlfriend and she's fatter than you.

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

Brothers naturally invite comparison.

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.