“Sometimes … I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won’t allow us to make our own.”
“we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us”
“I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.”
“And I also know that this is why love allows us to be so cruel to the beloved: so that the beloved doesn't make the mistake of loving us again or loving us for the first time.”
“Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.”
“For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.”