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“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and hate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant while I was tortured. I realized somehow through the screaming in my mind, even in that shackled bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate men who were torturing me, or not to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when its all you have got that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.” “Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”

Loves are like that. You heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and independence. After a while, you started throwing people out - your friends and everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of girls. That’s why I’m sick of Love.”

“Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it’s the other way round.” “You said it’s important to have freedom to say no, but I think it’s more important to have freedom to say yes.” “Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.” “People always hurt us with their trust. The surest way to hurt someone you like, is to put all your trust in him.” “I don’t know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us or our endless ability to endure it.” “Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened.” “The truth is a bully we all pretend to like.” “I could never respect a man who didn’t have the good sense to be at least a little afraid of me.” “Sometimes you have to surrender before you win.” “Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it.” “I’d only give you advice if I didn’t care what happens to you.” “If fate doesn’t make you laugh, then you just don’t get the joke.” “I take everything personally- that’s what being a person is all about.” “It isn’t a secret, unless keeping it hurts.” “Depression only happens to people who don’t know how to be sad.” “Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting” “Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn” “A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.” “Fear dries a man’s mouth, and hate strangles him. That’s why hate has no great literature: real fear and real hate have no words.” “You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.” “Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.”