Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

He’d never be the kind of man she deserved, whole and strong, not physically and mentally crippled.

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. It trips out to find a wrinkle and follows it down.

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.

Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

A series is filled with compromises.