"But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover.
That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair."
"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood
rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go
on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they
see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you
can create."
"If they don’t need you, it’s okay. You do not live for other people."
"We forget sometimes how much the world can hurt. It can hurt people we love, people we
don’t, people caught in the middle, even people who would give anything if they could just never
ever get to hurt again, but sometimes the hurt can’t be avoided. It’s just coming at us and can’t
be stopped. It’s in us and can’t be seen, or it’s lying next to us in the dark, waiting but
sometimes it doesn’t come at all. Sometimes we get this other thing that flutters down out of
nowhere and stays just long enough to give us hope. Sometimes rarely, barely, but just when we
need it the most and expect it the least, we get a break."