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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.
The sane man is simply a better liar than an insane man.
The difference between news and gossip-News tells you what people did, gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is. Love & its duty, sorrow & its truth. In the end that's all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn.
A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.
Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow.
I was going through deep and silent water. Nothing and no-one could make me happy. Nothing and no-one could make me sad. I was tough. Which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.
Every day, when you are on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realized, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's 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.
If you make your heart into a weapon, you always end up using it on yourself.
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.
Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
