You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

My mom used to say, “You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.

Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283

Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.