“The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.”

“Now, if you asked him what he was going to do with himself, he'd tell you he guessed he might do anything he set his mind to. But he'd say it in a far-off way, as if he didn't really mean it or car...”

“I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?”

“I'd rather be judged on what I can do instead of who I'm not.”

“If Im perplexed by the fact that Im constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head Ive determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.”

“I seem to be torn between 'I wish we'd met earlier' and 'I wish we'd never met'.”

“Smartass Disciple: Master, I feel really really confused about the truth.Master of Stupidity: Only confused? Walk in my shoes then you tell me.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!”

“i am hopelessly in love with a momentthat has not come yetit existssomewheresome placejust not herejust not now”

“She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment.”