Can I ask you something?" He placed the chain around her neck. She nodded. "Have you ever wanted something really badly that you know you shouldn't have, yet you can't stop yourself from wanting it?

For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings.

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

.... does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?

I like to start slowly, and then ease up as the day progresses.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.

Sometimes we miss the miraculous of all that we have been blessed with because we're so focused on the one thing we don't have. When this happens, we become disillusioned with all that we do have.

Violence against even one human being is violence against all.