“I don’t want to want you, and this doesn’t change anything. I still hate your guts.” “Liar.”

“That's a lot of feels,” Iris said. “And you know how I hate those,” Astrid said, replying without humor”

“It could not have been by chance that God sent me among so many different mentally ill people. He was obviously giving a message... He was saying, "Watch and see." Don't make the same mistakes again. Don't try to exist by shouting. Never insult the man in front of you. Learn to empathize. And knowing your limits. And to be silent. Accept. Understand. And stay away! The swamp you call a relationship is not for you right now! You die. Even I can't save you.”

“I was a bird trapped inside a cage that I thought I'd been released from, still confined and limited to where I could fly. I'd been holding up my umbrella to avoid the rain but I never stopped the rain from falling.”

“It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.”

“When in doubt, say nothing and move on.”

“The thing about lipstick, the reason it’s so powerful, is that it is distracting. Men don’t see the flashes of anger in your eyes or your clenched fists when you wear it. They see a woman, not a warrior, and that gives me the advantage.”

“There is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind. Who is there that has not longed that the power and privilege of selection among alternatives should be taken away from him in some important crisis of his life, and that his conduct should be arranged for him, either this way or that, by some divine power if it were possible, - by some patriarchal power in the absence of divinity, - or by chance, even, if nothing better than chance could be found to do it? But no one dares to cast the die, and to go honestly by the hazard. There must be the actual necessity of obeying the die, before even the die can be of any use.”