That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.

I think it's hard for you to fall in love because you like control, and you can't control what another person does or feels, so you keep all your cards.

I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I'm hurting. But isn't that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.

Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it.

You shouldn't have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.

We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.

We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.

Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.

There is no home without you.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

Care to see your room?” -Bones Let me guess—it’s that smashed‐up car right over there." -Cat

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

We, Brits, need to be sort of loosened up. And there's some transfer overseas, I think the more American fare that comes to the U.K., the more cross-fertilization there is that's perhaps changing.

Take care of things, and they will take care of you.

When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.