He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.