“It is a fine line to walk when teaching someone that life is both beautiful and dangerous, to open up to the world as well as be on guard.”

“I can't tell her the truth. I cannot tell her that there is no such thing as okay. There is just life. Sometimes it will be good and other times it will be bad.”

“A cloud in a box would blow my mind, would knock my socks off. I hoped the gift was a cloud in a box. I was curious; I had my doubts.”

“Good stories bare the heart and soul of human beings.”

“Everyone wants a world without sadness, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.”

“Unwell? I was fine, as good as one might feel in such circumstances. No, my friend, I merely pretended to faint. I'm a good actress. Actually, a thought had come into my mind: if a terrorist, I said to myself, were to blow up this church with all of us inside, at least one-tenth of all the hypocrisy in the world would disappear with us. So I had myself escorted out.”

“That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.”