“The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.”

“Key the mind, and set the soul free.”

“In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.”

“A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.”

“Which is colder, the hand or the gun?”

“And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, a...”

“Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.”

“It was only possible because it was attained. An Idea isn't feasible until it becomes reality”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”

“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can j...”

“I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table...”

“Hes dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if hed be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.”