The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

You are the completeness of my incompleteness.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

Had Zach just apologised for kissing her? She didn’t know whether to cry or slap his face. ~Maddie

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.

Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or some sort of madness", she said.

Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.