“You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind. I know you hate Americans, butI never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesnt matter to me what ...”

“Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.”

“What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. Thats what you do. You get out of bed, and you get yourself a cup of fucking coffee. Thats all you can do.”

“The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory without emptiness.”

“Let her go, Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.”

“The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book in her lap. She wondered sometimes, why she bothered with books. If she wanted...”

“Fake love, is just as damaging as open hate.”

“The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.”

“Superficial knowledge is potentially more dangerous than ignorance. It gives a false sense of security encouraging an ignorant man to persevere in his efforts that can result in huge damage.”

“Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracte...”

“Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I cou...”

“Spiritual learning is easy when we realize and experience that everything that everyone said about spirituality is already in action within us!!! Seek within rather than outside.”

“You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just ...”

“It is strange how easy it is to remember pain.”

“Sometimes... I feel like I can't picture him anymore. Like I'm forgetting him... I forget the way he looked when he smiled. The sound of his voice. The way his hand felt wrapped around mine. And it...”