And trust dies from ifs and buts.

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

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

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….

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

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes..

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….

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't..

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about ….

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise..

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….

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….

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….

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..

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….

Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally con….