“Love promises happily ever after, it boldly professes forever—but delivers only one thing—a reckless brand of hope.”
“The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see”
“Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.”
“The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.”
“When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.”