“Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,”

“She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.”

“But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.”

“Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.”

“come now, what's a reviewer?" I reasoned. "One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely...”

“What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”

“Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who weimagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. That each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction. Proposition, I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey. Is this possible? I just met her and yet, I feel like something important has happened to me.”