His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Every book is a world.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

I want John Legend to sing at my wedding.

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

The biggest weapon of mass destruction in history is the AK-47, not Iranian nuclear weapons.

You can become all God created you to be even if you've had difficulties, even if you weren't born into a good, loving family, God still has a plan for your life.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

I feel like I should be able to be 18 and have the friends that I choose and to have fun and live my life.