This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only option you have left.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

Whoever says he is without sin is a liar or is blind.

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND THANK EVERYONE WHO TRIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS