I believe we were right for each other, but not in that moment, which perhaps hindered any possibility of a future.

They always come back, but we don’t always answer.

I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.

I didn’t fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger.

We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.

If I had amnesia, I know I would fall in love with you all over again.

The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it.

I think we might’ve met in a past life. You know, one of those you pass and think, wow you’re kind of beautiful. Just one of those.

I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too.

To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.

You didn’t understand the poem, but that was because it wasn’t for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.

The trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there

Is he all scarred now? Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I scarred him emotionally.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.