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

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.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

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.

All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever. Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it's possible to love someone?

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.