The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

I’ve always loved the most natural women; I’m not very into hiding yourself. For me, the most beautiful girl would be a girl that feels comfortable with what she is. I’m always asked about what I would recommend, or what a girl should do—but it doesn’t work like that. You have to find yourself and what fits you and what’s good for you, and most of all, feel self-confident. When you see people that are self-confident, they radiate something good. When you look at iconic people, most of the time they are dressed up exactly the same way for all their life. They dress for themselves … I think the purpose is to find what’s right for you and what you feel good in. When somebody tries to be somebody else and looks too much to the newspaper or wants to resemble a certain girl, it will be a failure because you are not this girl. It’s better to spend some energy to find, ‘Ok, this is good for me,’ or ‘This is the right thing for me.’

Il a dû sentir qu’il venait de perdre à jamais son monde de lumière, que c’était le prix à payer pour avoir trop longtemps vécu prisonnier d’un seul rêve.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide you are not going to stay where you are.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of intelligence.

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

We all romanticize the people we adore.