“We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.”

“Hate isnt the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesnt free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a ...”

“I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that cant exist. Even when you touch her, a creature too beautiful to be real or to cause real pain. Its different for old men. We have...”

“Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.”

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.”

“I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that can’t exist. Even when you touch her, a creature too beautiful to be real or to cause real pain. It’s different for old men. We ha...”

“We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.”

“Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. W...”

“Having spent a long time in open spaces, whether sea or desert, it is a luxury to be able to take refuge in towns with narrow streets which provide a fragile fortress against the assaults of the in...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.”

“Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”