It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.