Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

The only selfish life is a timid one.

Their throats were bare for God.

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.