The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.
Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.
For Beatrice – My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.
Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.
It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.
There are some people who believe that home is where one hangs one’s hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.
The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman – it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.
Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.
Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.
Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.
I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.
It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don’t stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.
You know, there’s a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.
Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.
Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.
They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.
For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.
If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.