Sorrow has rushed over the world like the waters of the Deluge, and it will take time to recede. But already, there are small islands of - hope? Happiness? Something like them, at any rate.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed.

Happiness should never be your ultimate goal as you can experience it everyday, it’s a matter of choice

They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power.

The better you become as each day goes by, the more you heap dust upon you past until you completely bury it. No matter how obnoxious it was

This jeweled coast does not shine for its gems are coated with grit.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Jenn: Do you love him? Ani: Yeah, I do. Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands.

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.