When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

Still, the seeds of change have been sown in my mind, and they will not be easily forgotten.

Later, she didn’t remember how she escaped from his grasp, or how she ended up back in her barracks, but at that moment she realized that something had started that night that changed everything.

I am wretched. Destitute.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

Peace, peace, peace. Peace is organized.

Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

Manchester United will always be a competitor, just because of the very size of them.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.