“Books have led some to learning and others to madness.”
“Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)”
“wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness”
“Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.”
“Gradually we learned each other's stories and secrets and we fell madly in love; the kind of love that some people probably find nauseating.”
“As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.”