“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

“A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.”

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”

“You forget, darling.I am the local psychopath.”

“Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy, cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is irrevocably changed.”

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!”