Welcome to obsession.

“Sometimes things end quietly, without any screaming or crying or broken dishes all over the floor and the quiet things hurt so much more than the fires, the things that end in flames, with blood and bruises and somebody yelling “please don’t leave me” over and over again. Because when you and the boy you’ve loved for the past two years are about to burn to the ground you can try to put it out, you get a chance to save yourselves but when things just sort of fizzle out and love disappears like a little leak in the basement neither of you noticed or the smoke from the dinner you burned last night there’s nothing you can do to stop it.”

“In another world we shall understand it all.”

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment.”

“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”

“God, how painful it is, being angry.”

“In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.”