Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

Donna fight the darkness, nobody. Embrace it.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

My husband really loves the red [lipstick], so I keep the red because I want to keep the husband.

Your dreams should never be better than your real life

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.