Some wounds were worth bearing for the healing they brought.

...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last – things of joy, and things of burden.

We were immortal, did you know that? Did you feel it like me? We had the world at our feet and we were going to live forever. Then came life – growing inside you – and I became mortal.

It certainly is a puzzle.” He turned back to the broken road. “But sometimes to find the answer, you have to take a leap of faith.

Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.

Pieces of your heart broke every day when you were a mother.

Believe in your passionate dreams.

To give up on a person you care for who is trying and failing is a bad thing, but to cut ties with an individual who is giving zero effort, yet doing a number on your heart makes sense.

The funnel of my family’s salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman’s toes

I think everyone shares a fear of failure-that you're only as good as your most recent collection.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.