“Nobody teaches life anything.”

“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”

“It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself. ”

“It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone’s. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.”

“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to turn me into anything but a writer.”

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”

“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.”