Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave, " she said. "It's not a duck, is it?

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

I am catastrophically in love with you.

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

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I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

I feel like a real dead one: having neither blood to bleed nor any flesh or bone to feel the scars

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.