Hope – that silly, stupid creature that lived within me, no matter how often I tried to beat it to death – lifted its nose and sniffed at the air.

Just because it's common doesn't make it less powerful.

I am going to be murdered.It wasn’t any easier to face in the daytime.

This will be the night I escape. The thought repeated in my mind like a refrain, over and over, and I believed it so hard that I whispered it aloud: ‘This will be the night I escape!

The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.

I was sixteen, still my mother’s prisoner, the night I became the whale.

My heart is my home.

Try and make people happy, and you will make the world a better place.

I know I'm not perfect & will never become. Yet, I'm proud of being Me, with all humility & imperfections. Cause this is the only life I have.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point.

The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.

The gift of achievement is not the things you get, but the person you become.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

Never call a stomach a tummy without good reason.