“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”

“My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.”

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

“Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.”