If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow

Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.

When we can't get away for a vacation we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on.

I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm eighteen, and I'm going to fall in love.

As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.