“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.”

“The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.”

“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 ...”

“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.”

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which ...”

“I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.”

“Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but safe isnt one of them.”

“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.”

“In this culture, cultivating unconditional self-acceptance truly is radical.”

“Your medal is there already in your heart, in how you think, feel and act toward yourself.”

“It doesn't matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless You believe in You.”