I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been gone, but you have to move on. If not today, then someday soon.I love you, Ryden, I will always love you, but I’m not here anymore.

You put a new heart in Emma a long time ago, it just wasn’t the kind you were thinking of.” He laughed to himself. “Hope is an amazing thing. I saw it in Emma, saw it with my own eyes.

An hour later. the moon reflected its light on the Tigris as well. The sun, the moon, and Fatima. What else could I ask for?

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.

Be careful of your mood and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

Wealth is created from creating value.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?