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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

"When you became the love, everyone around you becomes your lover."

"There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment)."

"Forgiveness is all about love. Where love abounds, there forgiveness will not tarry."
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"Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help."

"I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible."

"But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind."

"Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you."

"You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind."

"I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist."

"Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen."

"It was amazing how many colors there were, all running into the gutter in a stream: a dozen shades of blue, twenty different reds, and all that black soot, like a nightmare given form, the insides of a heart, destroyed so easily, done away with before anyone could stop the damage, or salvage what was lost, or even try to save him."

"Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people."

"I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards."
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