“The world is a terrifying place, more than I ever realized. But if I had my whole life to do over again, that's literally the only thing I'd change. I'd stop being so afraid of other people.”

“You know that old clich about how millions of deaths being a statistic, while the loss of just one life is a tragedy? If that's true, what is it when you lose something that never even had a chance...”

“What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.”

“Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.”

“I suppose the only time we ever really get to be happy in lifelike one hundred percent blissfulis when were little kids.""Because theres less to worry about?""Because were too stupid to know how wo...”

“It doesn't matter who started it or what it's really about...war usually ends up sucking most for women. Even when we're not fighting the battles ourselves, we somehow always end up with the lion's...”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”