And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at le….

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past..

All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever. Like jus….

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have….

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very intere….

Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. ….

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't w….

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss….

She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable….

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it..

I cannot live without reading..

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists..

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love..

And trust dies from ifs and buts.

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is..

The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confessi….

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope..

How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not j….

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are..

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that ….