“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.”

“Whenever I'm with you it's as though someone has reached inside my chest, until the pain is almost more than I can bear. And when I'm not with you, I'd give anything to feel that way again." He heaved a deep sigh and continued. "But I...I couldn't go another day as I was." "And who are you now?" she asked. "A man hopelessly in love with you.”

“If you have ever met someone who rarely reads, then you will understand the blank look Moti gave me. For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don’t exist here.”

“We’ve had a terrible start—it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”

“A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.”

“Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.”

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”

“Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful”