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.

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

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 idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.

Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.