I ached with loss that I’d never allowed myself to feel. As if I was leaving something important behind. And that something was me.

Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know.

There was something comforting about believing in things that didn’t exist.

In the darkness, she listened to the silence. She wallowed in the beautiful nothing it made.

But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn’t make you matter any less.

Couches and tables and beds don’t make a home. Home is where you feel less alone.

Because nothing was sacred. Not in this world. Not in stones. Not in trees. Not in legacies. Certainly not in love.

Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale.

Change is coming, she whispered to the bugs bouncing off her window. You can’t escape it.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that Jamal and Johnny should be treated equally.

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

I can never unlove you. I'll just love you in a different way now.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.