The rain sounded like it was washing the whole world away.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

Things hurt and then don't hurt and hurt again.

Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.

Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

We give up too soon. The sure way to succeed is to endure to the very end.

Take a chance and risk it all or play it safe and suffer defeat.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.

To think is to be sick.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.