“The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.”
“This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.”
“Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.”
“We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.”
“How should we like it were stars to burnWith a passion for us we could not return?If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.”
“Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.”