“Every day, thought Stone, is a revelation. At night it seems that you will never see it again, that it has been lost in the darkness. But with the sun, you hold your breath and look, and there it is. Just as it was; as you could never quite remember it.”

“True friendship is like the sun that you can't always see in the darkness of night, but you know will return to brighten your day.”

“You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.”

“If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity — every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.”

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”

“If you look at the darkness, not light, every day, your life will be filled with darkness.”

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

“How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.”