Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.