But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.

When I look back, I'm glad I grew up in a small town. There, it's just you, your family and whatever you make of it.

I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made.

I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body

When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.

For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.

Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.