Silent tears are the worst. It's the sign of a broken spirit. No sound, no residual emotions... just tears. Silent, unstoppable tears.

And without my consent, with my defences in ruins, while my brain was sleeping, my stupid heart went and fell headfirst into love.

My last thought before falling asleep last night was a realisation that I was falling in love with Andrew. Well, not me exactly. My stupid, traitorous heart.

I think he won a tiny piece of my heart that day. If he didn't have the whole damn thing before then, he certainly had part of it now.

I kissed him softly and left my lips pressed to his for a few beats of my heart.

What Zayd had said to her was hurtful. The words speared across the most sensitive part of her heart like how a gardening spear cut along the leaves, leaving the top part of the bushes bare and lost.

Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.