But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].

The problem with books is that they end.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.

we’re too old to be young.

... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.

You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you’re blasphemous because all you want is You

In the cage, you feel loved, not trapped. Just like me.

I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.

and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you.

pain is pondering about past and wishing to relive those moments even after knowing it's impossible.

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

I would love to host someone's bar mitzvah. I would love to do that.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.

God not only allowed for joyful worship but also commanded it.

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.