Lucy: Why do you want me to stay?Asher: Because I like you.Lucy: Why do you want me to go?Asher: Because I like you.

Even if it means I’ll never be the man you give yourself to, I’ll always do anything to protect you.

I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.

Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning as you go.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

The open heart sees, feels and absorbs the beauty of the world.

Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.