A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

Have courage, be capable of loving.... Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.