“Each one of us is the sum total of every moment that we’ve ever experienced with all the people we’ve ever known.”

“There’s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we’ve ever imagined.”

“Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts”

“All decisions we’ve come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.”

“So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it –– we all get to dream.”

“If we’re ever found out,” he murmured in answer, “it could ruin us. And now we’ve got the added bonus of getting ourhearts broken if something goes wrong.”