“Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.”

“We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.”

“I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.”

“While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.”

“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.”

“If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.”

“Reading brings us unknown friends”