“[W]e are here to love. Not much else matters.”
“No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people, if you don’t love yourself then it can never be enough.”
“If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”
“Learning, and especially unlearning, can take place only in the absence of defensiveness.... [W]e can drop our defenses only when we love and are loved.”
“I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.”
“No matter how much he loves you, sometimes he'd just rather have an inch of rain than anything else in the world.”