I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

If you can invest all your time into giving birth to a quality product, the whole world will celebrate you and everyone will be in need of your product.

They weren’t like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.

Your chronological age makes you older, grownNess is a state of mind!

The lie detector didn’t react to anything I said, but I wouldn’t dare smile.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.