“I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.”

“When you forgive, you lose your anger, and when you lose your anger, you get weak. And when you're weak, you can get hurt all over again.”

“We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.”

“Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.”

“The quiet ones, the introverts, are uniquely gifted. We have tremendous patience and empathy. We don’t need to say much, yet we’re able to build deep connections and rapport with those around us. The act of displaying Quiet Confidence is much easier to cultivate than we think. It’s built-in, a bundled accessory, we simply have to activate it!”

“If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.”

“There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps.”

“All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.”