"No man can suffer both severely and for a long time; Nature, who loves us most tenderly, has so constituted us as to make pain either endurable or short."

"Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone."

"I tell you what: I give you all of my strength - I seal it inside a little green envelope and mail it to yo…"

"I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the par…"

"Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of th…"

"I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not be…"

"A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you nee…"