“Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything...away.”
“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
“He who makes a beast of himself, takes the pain out of being a man”
“I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.”
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being”
“Funny how at twenty-five you worry about not being taken seriously and take being a sex object for granted. Later you take being taken seriously for granted, and worry about not being a sex object.”