I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks—but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks—but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!

But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.

Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

You cannot run away from what’s in your heart.

The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think