“But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.”

“Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.”

“We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?”

“And John Kearns whispered into my ear: "Do you see it now? *You* are the nest. *You* are the hatchling. *You* are the chrysalis. *You* are the progeny. *You* are the rot that falls from the stars. ...”

“I confessed I did not have an opinion; I was only thirteen, and this was my very first dismemberment.”

“Beside me the monstrumologist murmured, "I believe I am in hell, therefore I am there.”

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”