People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

The world surrenders to an enlightened mind.The stars surrender to a joyful heart. The universe surrenders to a loving soul.

You know the saying? Don't go in if you don't have a skin.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.

Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.