Quotes from Sue Halpern

In math, the constant variable stays the same, while the other variables have no fixed value. But in life, as those variables take on more precedence, the value of the constant diminishes.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise.

She's annihilating herself." "Alienating herself," Janet says. "I meant what I said," Mircia says.

Place is of consequence only to the extent that it encourages or demands the confrontation of the self by the self, which is solitude's true vocation.

It said that a dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book. I loved that. And I just had to have it.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'