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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

But the bit I liked best was where it said it's impossible to define love because it takes so many forms and is so complicated.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

And trust dies from ifs and buts

I cannot live without reading.

I don't actually think "true love" is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

I sometimes wonder whether most people choose their hobbies because they lust after the gear more than for the benefits of the activities themselves.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

Readers are made by readers.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

Unfortunately, ... , all too often a joke tells the truth.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren't very lovable.

If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.