Sometimes, that’s the way it is with people. You think you can tell what they are based on the patterns that you see, but when you take a look inside, they’re nothing like you expect them to be.

Derek’s. Lucas’. Ben’s. It’s beyond me what I must do to make them realize that I’m neither object nor possession. I don’t belong to any of them.

After all, it seemed far nobler to give up one’s life to the light than to the dark.

This, Derek, is what you’re going to turn into without her in your life. You can only get worse from here. This is why you need her.

The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.

Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.

Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles.

The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.

none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.

My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.