"How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms."

"If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun."

"The more you feel, the stronger you are."

"Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows."

"Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner."

"She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future."

"He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted."

"You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it."

"It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found."

"In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients."

"He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one."

"Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen."

"People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost."

"Remember what I've told you. Remember me."

"I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?"

"Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle."

"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang."

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself."

"Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!"

"What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die."

"Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself"."

"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."

"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."