the way back

“You will burn and you will burn out. You will be healed and come back again. And I will wait for you.”

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind…”

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

“…each found her greatest safety in silence…”

“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

“That’s what friends do: they notice things. They’re there for each other. They see what parents don’t.”

“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”

“I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place. A place I don’t talk about or acknowledge exists. A place where there is only me.”

“The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.”

“Folks don’t like nobody being too proud, or too free.”