That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.

Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.

When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

But then, it's probably different when you're young.

A new life? There’s not such thing. It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life. Stopped drinking or taking drugs, found a new love. But the same life.

This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.

No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of

For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love." (Let the Right One In)

Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.

Hope is what keeps us hanging on when we feel our rope wearing out. A positive attitude is often the natural result of maintaining that hope.

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.

The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified.

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

Simply having children does not make mothers.

Perhaps my most important goal is to create a million millionaires.

Camouflage is about much more than concealment and going unnoticed. There's a whole game involved between revealing and hiding.

Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough.