“We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.”

“Hope distracts you from pain - it's pain with red lipstick on to seduce you.”

“Her honey-blonde hair is strewn across her face as she sways her head. Shes working a red sequined bikini separated by a tan, flat stomach, and a butterfly tattoo resting on her left hip. Her legs ...”

“The worst thing that can happen to us is that our wings melt and we fall into the sea.”

“Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.”

“Nobody actually ever does thisescaping through a window.”

“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.”

“Chasing money to please society.”

“The love in your heart is greater than all the stars the sky could even hope to have. Hold onto that love, and it will take you higher than the stars themselves.”

“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just...”

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”

“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”

“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny...”

“No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”