"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
— Jane Austen

"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now
mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

"He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it"
— Joseph Heller (Catch-22)