“They had money, but don’t you go talking about class.”

“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.”

“If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.”

“...when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.”

“Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.”

“No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.”

“The ease I had come to expect with him had evaporated, replaced by awkwardness, a confusing tendency towards wrong turns and misunderstandings”