There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

I cannot live without reading.

And trust dies from ifs and buts