“-Forced love hurts God.-How can you hurt something that doesnt exist?-At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around...”

“one does not remember ones own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us”

“In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.”

“-“Forced love hurts God.” -“How can you hurt something that doesn’t exist?”-“At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are...”

“one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us”

“They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attent...”

“But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of th...”

“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make...”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”