Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.

Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with.

I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors.

Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.