“You may need to change your dreams.”

“What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.”

“We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was”

“It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.”

“I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?”

“Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”