My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.

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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

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Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.

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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand

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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

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I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

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