Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.

He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.

Jocelyn’s stomach lodged another complaint with the management regarding the length of time since breakfast.

The space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become small.

... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.

Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.