"I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."