“Having no history, I decide, is a blessing. I wouldn’t want to be cursed with the memory of a lifetime of mistakes.”

“whatever I decide, I might be making a mistake. But if I'm going to make a mistake I want it to be passionate”

“Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.”I laughed. “No problemo.”

“You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings...”

“But if you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good. And rather be angry than put to shame. And if you are cursed, I do not like that you want to bless. Rather join a little in the cursing.”

“I think you should see this as a blessing. A release from a lifetime of mediocrity.”