“I read more than Mandy Lethbridge, and Im faster at it too.”

“I invented the pelican, but probably not the acorn or unicorn.”

“I can't have it near me anymore, I'm grenading it back to you, as soon as I unfold it and read it and cry one more time. Because me too, and fuck you. Even now.”

“Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.”

“We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to become much more than what we are.”

“I read all of those books I always wanted to read, or reread... And I feel full. Until I finish a book. Then I feel a certain desperation to start a new one. To have company.”

“I'd never realized how bad that house needed music until I heard it, I knew right then that big houses need music more than little ones.”