“If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.”

“Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.”

“Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolívar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

“feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.”

“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

“It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”