

“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”
― The Name of This Book Is Secret
― The Name of This Book Is Secret

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Porno
― Porno
“Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...”
― The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
― The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
― The Silver Pencil
― The Silver Pencil

“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
― Frostbite
― Frostbite

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