“love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl...”

“Women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them”

“The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.”

“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”

“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground, and you just pick them up.”

“They were drugged, stone in love. To them every scar on the face of the world was a beauty mark.”

“Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close”