“We fear what we most desire.”

“The pain we cause will haunt our memories and eat at our souls. I do not seek forgiveness, only the emptiness of death.”

“Sometimes thatwhich we fearstrengthens ourspirit and givesus a splashof hope.”

“Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.”

“Hope is a gift. Use it wisely.”

“Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”

“Maybe that was how I found comfort just then, even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words.”

“I remember you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know.”

“Because If you ever think of me in the future I want you to remember me smiling”