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“Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child”

“She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.”

“Powerful people have no regrets.”

“Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.”

“There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.”

“Sometimes you have to lose to win”

“There's no such thing as forever.”

“A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water”

“The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

- Karla”

“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”

“The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on.”

“We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.”

“Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.”

“There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.”

“The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”

“People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.”

“Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you..”

“If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.”

“Ask people for help. You’ll be all right. Don’t worry. It’s a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun…”

“The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.”

“A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.”

“The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love”

“hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words”

“They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.”

“I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.”

“It doesnt always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world.”

“Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.”

“Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.”

“It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.”