How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?

I think, ' Hoa says slowly, 'that if you love someone, you don't get to choose how they love you back.

Because that is how one survives eternity, ” I say, “or even a few years. Friends. Family. Moving with them. Moving forward.

But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.

She has seen him fight his own brutal nature, and the Earth itself, in order to be the parent she needs. He has helped her learn to love herself for what she is.

The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths

How shall I tell you of the world you faceStrident with sound of weapons and of hate, Make you aware now of the narrowing spaceBetween the hope of mortal and his fate?

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.

You need to face what you're running from

They live ill who expect to live always.

And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.