The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.
Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels.
She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.