“It said something about how much the soul or spirit in charge mattered.”

“It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

“Some hurts can never be mended" he said. "No matter how much time passes. They tattoo themselves on our souls”

“I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said.”

“And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.”

“One thing I’d learned in life was that women could bitch about their men until they were blue in the face and you could listen and nod and offer support. But you never as in never said something bad about a woman’s man no matter how much she bitched or how much he may deserve it. It always came back to haunt you.”