Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.