I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.

What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

You may need to change your dreams.

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.

When I’m with you, I could drink water and be full.

I never want to love someone like that, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn't be able to survive if he left me.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?

If you like someone, you tell the truth because that, to me, is respect. If you hate someone, you tell them the truth because what do you have to lose?

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me...

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

Changing course is never easy.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

What goes through my head when I'm going to take a game-winning shot is ... I better make it. Don't be afraid of the moment.

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.