I just know there's no way to live without pain - no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.

Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.

Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn't want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.

I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title

Abruptly, Adrik snarled, 'I'm glad Sergei's dead. I'm just sorry I didn't get to wring his neck myself.''You'd need two hands for that, ' said

The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.

Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?You called me and I answered

Funny, though, I don't feel too bad.

I want to know exactly how many pieces of myself I had to give away before I became something else entirely.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life.

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.

VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it.

The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.