Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it a... - Alain de Botton

"The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be."

"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy."

"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."

"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."

"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."