“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”

“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”