Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.-Sonia

Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you.""You already hit him with a car.

Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

The most beautiful person is a person with kind heart and loving soul.

A hand in mine.. hot. Breath on my neck... sweet. The feel of lips on my own... forbidden.

...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.

I trust no one, not even myself.

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

I don't eat green things, no vegetables.