People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.

The only thing he cares about.