Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

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An unshared happiness is not happiness.

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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

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