Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.

Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

Anyone can grow into something beautiful.

Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

The open forgiveness in her eyes, the uncensored love, terrified me.

Nothing you could do would make me send you away. Nothing.

Hyacinth. Please forgive me.

Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.

I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.

Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.

On the sound of handcuffs--"For me it's the sound of all light and hope crashing down on a minority.

She had stumbled on what was possibly the ultimate truth, the greatest wisdom of all - the search for knowledge never ends. It goes on and on forever.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

In L.A relationships don't last. You go on a vacation and break up by the time you come home. Thank God for one-hour photo, so you can see your vacation photos while you're still in the relationship.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.