Attend to your own fate.

I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?I don’t know.And I don’t know how to make it stop.

I do not fear pain.

I'm starting to think you like prisons, " "And that you have the worst taste in men.

No heart can be truly understood. Not even your own.

While we are together, I will never suffer a prison again.

No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.

One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me.

I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze.

When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on.

Lightning has no mercy.

The Hands create, what the Heart feels!

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.