“It's one thing to listen only to yourself and believe in the superiority of your ideas. It's quite another to look down upon those who don't share them.”

“Love is not the demand of another, nor is it the need of another. It is all-embracing acceptance, is it not?”

“..and the peaceful feeling that helps him realize that whatever you see around you, whatever holds and loves you, is who you truly are.”

“There is something there. Not desire, not romance, but acquiescence. She understands; she forgives. this is love, he thinks with a settling sigh. This is love. The duration is of no consequence We love to know we are known. We ache to know it.”

“It's one thing to know a truth in your head but another to understand it in your heart.”

“Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stories? To hear them? Who will ever know that I existed?”

“Life is never that simple. And the fact that it's not that simple to you means only one thing: You're still alive.”