I never want to love someone like that, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn't be able to survive if he left me.

What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

You may need to change your dreams.

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.

I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.

When I’m with you, I could drink water and be full.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?

The best way to Prove your critics wrong is to Improve yourself

For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

I lead by example. But if I get pissed enough, I'll say something. It usually isn't rah-rah; it's more complaining.

There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presences.

An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease, and I don’t think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they’re openly telling you that they do.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.