“Cowards spend their lives alone. Either with people who can't hurt them, or with no one at all.”

“The thing is you have to fight the whole time. You can't stop. Otherwise you just end up somewhere, bobbing in the middle of a life you never wanted.”

“I would fight for him and against anyone who wouldn't. It wasn't complicated. In the beginning love never is.”

“But one day the "why" arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.”

“Everything can change, but only with abandon.”

“Anyone you can fool isn't worth loving.”

“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”