“Faith may want answers, but somehow it is able to survive without them.”

“If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn't have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why people read: not so they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would think they looked less lonely with a book in their hands and therefore not pity them and leave them alone.”

“Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.”

“Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.”

“Friendship plants itself as a small unobtrusive seed; over time, it grows thick roots that wrap around your heart. When a love affair ends, the tree is torn out quickly, the operation painful but clean. Friendship withers quietly, there is always hope of revival. Only after time has passed do you recognise that it is dead, and you are left, for years afterwards, pulling dry brown fibres from your chest.”

“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”

“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”

“If an act of inhumanity goes unchallenged in your presence, then you have no right to call yourself human.”