“But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.”

“Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have no understanding of them at all.”

“Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool”

“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”

“To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.”

“This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.”

“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”

“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.”

“They were human beings who had a life, who had a lineage, who had parents, who had children, who had lives. They were not poor or rich. They were people and these people had humanity. So it was important that someone who knew them write about the event…”

“The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.”