I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Only self-love spreads true love.

O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

For the record, if there's anyone who could flirt with a mountain range, it's probably the person standing in front of you.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.

Hill sprints are good for everyone!

The worst curse in life is unlimited potential.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.