We must strive to be like the moon

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

If you compromise your core values, you go nowhere.

Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.

Rainbows are said to be beautiful!Rainbows are said to be colourful!Rainbows may possibly be magical!But, I have never seen a rainbow appearing in the sky!

That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

I have always loved music.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

All women speak two languages: 
the language of men 
and the language of silent suffering.
 Some women speak a third, 
the language of queens.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

[Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues.