That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

A good life is a main argument.

We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

There is no snooze button on life - Tara Daniels

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.