If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?" "Nothing" I said, "Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.

I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.

I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.