I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is-she's a hero.

We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can

It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.

Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them.

The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, “Aha. Of course. That's right.”

I like a lot of things that aren't good for me.

Astley comes to my side. 'Are you well?' 'No,' I tell him, voice hoarse. 'I am not well. I am broken inside. I am broken almost all-the-way deep, and I don't know...I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again'