“As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them.Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.”

“I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.”

“He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.”

“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”

“When you love, dear girl, you give another the power to hurt you. If you love deeply enough, you give another the power to destroy you.”

“Love is a beautiful but terrible thing," he said. "You have to be careful with it. It can destroy you.”

“The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.”