“Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.”

“Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.”

“She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touch her shoulder. Her dark hair brushes the back of my hand. Her dark eyes shine. Their brightness ...”

“You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.”

“Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield.”

“The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways.”

“World peace can be achieved only if there is nothing left to conquer”

“As long as there will be something to conquer, world peace will be a pipe dream”

“Ill affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It wont rain.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”

“If you pray, you can endure any pain.”

“We are shaped by every endured situation.”

“There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my...”