“Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!”
“If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.”
“Beginnings are pitiless things; they are full of promise and hope that they never have to realise.”
“Full of promise, full of dreams, full of shit. Mostly just full of yourself. So full you’re bursting. And then you get out into the world, and people empty you out, little by little, like air from a balloon.”
“God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.”
“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ”