Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verde ramas. Green I love you green. Green Wind. Green branches.

People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.

At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.