“I hated myself, and the part of me that was cowardly wished for a simple solution: an exchange of pain for forgiveness. But life didn’t work that way, and fucking up was forever.”

“And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.”

“The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.”

“Love doesn't just go away when it becomes inconvenient.”

“It's not what you do, it's what it means.”

“There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.”

“Pain was simply an inevitability of living, and I had to learn how to trust him with his own, as I trusted him with mine.”

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It ...”

“In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.”

“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.”

“And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women." My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a lit...”