“He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.”

“You’ve learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast.'What lesson might that be?''That the lessons never end.' He laughed, gingerly sipped his steaming tea. 'That ignorance is infinite.”

“It was a lesson I had taken most of my life to learn. Sometimes you have to let things go.”

“If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade”

“A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.--Louis Auchincloss”

“‎But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did.”