You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home.

... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.

Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed.

Remember to be kind. Always.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

My wife and I love to read. Were going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

I'm fighting for this girl on the battlefield of love Got me look like baby Cupid Sending arrows from above

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.