“Are you a Buddhist?""No, I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.”

“I must send you into exile, that you may be the coal of her heart. No real thing can be so perfect as memory, and she will need a perfect thing if she is to survive. She will warm herself on the me...”

“The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.”

“Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.”

“In the Library you took your good times where you could find them.”

“As the days and weeks and seasons wore on he found himself repeating this nothing, not wanting to. Gradually he came to understand that this particular nothing was all that he could really say now....”

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It aint no disgrace to be po...”

“Youve changed me forever. And Ill never forget you.”

“Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discover...”

“Tonight started innocently enough. Most terrible things do, right?”

“However, at fourteen years old, she didnt understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life”

“For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.”