The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.

Zakhor. Al Tichkah. Remember. Never forget.

When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?

You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.

You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose.

I wanted to cry, but the tears did not come.

How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.

You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading. Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured.

I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Pray the prayer nobody dares to pray. "as in heaven, so on earth".

Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.

The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.

I like to go to the races at Hollywood Park, but I don't usually win with the horses, so afterward I go to Auntie Em's and drown my sorrows in a red velvet cupcake. It never fails me.

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.