“If only my heart could abstainfrom love.The more I seethe with desireThe more I seem to attract.”

“1939. Love rages. It cries out from you, seething and red; I come back for more and more.”

“But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been.”

“It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.”

“If I was being candid with her, she’d only find out that I felt something for her that could only be the equivalent of a gravitational pull towards the center of the earth. She was a magnet for me and I was powerless to resist. It was more than a mere attraction.”

“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.”