Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.

That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.