This is just me. Get used to it.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I’ll sing.

Caring about someone doesn't mean taking care of them.

Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.

There's a lot I don't understand... but not understanding is better than not believing

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.