“You and your siblings are the most precious part of my life. And of all my children, you have the most potential to go anywhere you wish in this world your test scores and grades have always been ...”

“Its not a bad thing, if youre responsible about it. Just dont start having boyfriends. Wait until youve found your husband. And how am I supposed to find a husband if I cant have a boyfriend until ...”

“And you can do far more for us from America than you can from here, where youre just another defenseless Christian. So if you really want to help, Inas, then youll go to the very best school you ca...”

“It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide you and love you.”

“Im not sure. But unless Im struggling with the darkness within I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is.”

“Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.”

“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”

“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”

“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”

“... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools”

“[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.”

“We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences p...”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”