No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
There is always something left to love.
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.
It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.