It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.