“This is the thing we must guard against: that others' expectations, especially our families', do not become our own.”

“We have to know the truth about our past to discover our future.”

“You think it is so different because you live here in this time, in this place, because I'm from the far side of the sea. But we are attached by the water between us. It is the same tide and moon, the same sea, love, fear, losing, and death. Love does not change with time. The love that fills us and empties us, that clips our wings so thatwe must decide whether to learn to fly after that. To love or to fear.”

“People say it all the time--'follow your heart.' What are we supposed to do--take our heart out and walk around behind it--follow it down the sidewalk to the mall? Your feet will lead you to your heart. Ha! "Maybe it just means you should know your heart, because if you know it, you might do what it says to do. I don't think it means you do whatever you damn well please. I don't think the heart speaks very loudly either--just tosses you hints and whispers.”

“This is now and forever - the moment everyone must have, the moment that encompasses all other moments; now and before, now and after: all time.”

“Things aren't obvious unless we see them.”

“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.”