“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

“When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”

“I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.”

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”

“She looked up. “A world of nevers under a never sky.” She fit in well then, he thought. A girl who never shut up.”

“Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.”

“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”