"I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything… I wish, just once, I could say, ‘This. This is good enough’. Just because I choose it."

"I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that’s way more interesting than yours will ever be."

"The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself."

"Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

"Eternity is an illusion that was created out of fear of ageing."