The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

Hey, Max, " I whispered. "I love you, too."The smile that lit up his face was brighter than the neon lights radiating from the London Eye. But mine felt even brighter.Like my future.

Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With my knives.

A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty.

I apologise to people when I need to.

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.