“The Idea of a life gets in the way of my life.”

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.””

“People never learn anything by being told. They have to find out for themselves.”

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”

“It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful, I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”

“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand—relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.”

“Fall in love with the person who enjoys your madness, not an idiot who forces you to be normal.”

“The forest. She feels it drawing her, luring her in, as the depths of the ocean and the mountain heights are said to lure people,”

“You have witchcraft in your lips.”

“The right love will strengthen you, scare you, and give you the courage to share what your heart has survived.”

“I want time, months, weeks—rainy suburbs without people. I want mornings with you, I want to begin the mornings with you,”

““It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.””