He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

There was cruelty in silence, and isolation made it worse.

I can cook a little bit but pretty much when I get back from practice I am pretty tired that I just order out.

What is difficult is to keep the sweet voice with an aggressive message.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself