“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”
“Nobody teaches life anything.”
“My father taught me the most important thing about wisdom—that I was going to have to acquire it from other people. So without teaching me, he taught me how to learn from others.”
“He's finding out, he's doing all right, he'll go to school but nobody's going to teach him anything.”
“It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love.”
“If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life”