“Don't play any game if you don't understand the rules no matter how nice winners trophy looks like”

“Ideals and opportunities and social theorizing are just fine, but if you must understand only one thing, it is this: a warm hand and words whispered into the ear are what we want. Paths that can be seen and followed and walked upon are what we most need....And in the end, the thing that feeds us, no matter how tenuous, is what we will reach for.”

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.”

“I was hers in ways that those with loyalties of convenience cannot fathom. I loved her beyond words and clothes, and yes beyond even pain. The strangest of things is the way the hungry always return to the very same hand. The hand they know. The one that cannot give.”

“It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.”

“Geen twee mense se verhale is dieselfde nie, niemand s'n is kort of eenvoudig nie, elkeen het feite wat met die ander s'n veg. Skaars het iemand klaar gepraat, of die ander gryp sy verhaal en skeur dit uitmekaar.”

“Herinnerings laat hulle nie so maklik orden nie. Om te onthou, beteken dat jy onverhoeds betrap kan word.”