Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.