❝It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.❞

❝She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen.❞

❝You only lose what you cling to.❞

❝You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple of years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your own lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now own you.❞

❝I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.❞

❝If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.❞

❝Every minute felt like an eternity time, clearly as if it had malicious intent, slowly ebbing away from me. I clenched my teeth, and keeping myself from crying was the only thing I could do…❞

❝If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.❞

❝You can make all the excuses you want. But you’re the one who decides how to live your life.❞

❝Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.❞