I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?

Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

When people throw at you with toxic words

The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?

We saw beautiful landscapes on the journey.

Love will commit, or love will commit suicide.

Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.

...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.