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It’s comforting to think the defect is mine, because that means it is under my power.

Odds are better if you rely on yourself.

They died as heroes, their wives as slaves.

He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

I did not see the worst of him. Even at his best he was not an easy man. But he was a friend to me in a time when I needed one.

Perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

Even the best iron grows brittle with too much beating.

Living with him was like standing beside the sea. Each day a different colour, a different foam-capped height, but always the same restless intensity pulling towards the horizon.

A golden cage is still a cage.

Monsters are a boon to gods. Imagine all the prayers.

I couldn't think of a better purpose for the universe than for her to be in it.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

No one will understand you. It isn't, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

Don't always try to be cool. The whole universe is cool. It's the warm bits that matter.

You shouldn't have been born. Your existence is as close to impossible as can be. To dismiss the impossible is to dismiss yourself.

The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

The point of love was to help you survive.

She was a human. She knew one day her husband would die and yet she still dared to love him. That was an amazing thing.

Love was a way to live forever in a single moment.

Sometimes the only power you need is persistence.

The need to find comfort in the dark.

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?
Pretty much.

Basically the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.

It ain't over till it's over.

Most of us have a "they" in the audience, even though nobody's really watching, at least not how we think they are.

In the best goodbyes, there is always the feeling that there's something more to say,

If you sign up for intimacy getting hurt is part of the deal.

Even in the best possible relationship, you are going to get hurt sometimes, and no matter how much you love somebody, you will at times hurt that person, not because you want to but because you're human.

None of us can love and be loved without the possibility of loss.

The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.