“It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.”
“We are naught but a collection of the people we have known and the paths we have followed.”
“Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers. ”
“Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.”
“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
“Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.”