“So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.”

“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows fr...”

“I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.”

“A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.”

“Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?”

“Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.”

“Blame is the creed of the disempowered.”

“The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.”

“A child is not to blame for being immersed in a certain environment and handed down complexes”

“Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.”

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”

“If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.”

“The trip doesnt exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears so long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will continue to hara...”

“We become what we think!" (Philippians 4:8,9)”