“Hope or perhaps delusion was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.”

“I don't know what we're doing here you and me I don't know what we are or what we can be, but this doesn't have to be about that. This can just be about a chance. Taking a chance.”

“God, she butted her head into his chest, I'm so angry with myself.What? Why?Because this is my mess I dragged you into, and you don't deserve any of it, and I feel like I'm ruining you with every ...”

“She had forced herself to learn to read picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from televis...”

“Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.”

“She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from televi...”

“We all have the same root, and are connected...To tap into this connectedness we must go within.”

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”

“I'd rather be on the ground than underTo feel the heavy rain and the thunder.”

“We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.”

“Advice," Doa Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at sev...”

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

“I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.”

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone wont either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are...”

“Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you”