"There are worse fates than death, you know."

"He was a stain against the brightness. A shadow standing against the sun."

"Let someone in, give them the power to hurt you, and they'd do exactly that, in the end."

"Through love, all is possible"

"I guess we all have those things inside us. Best to shine a light on the dark spots. Takes away their power."

"In retrospect, when I look at the bad in the world, very often I find there is some mercy at work under it all,  some good that can be drawn out of it."

"The most valuable thing you can own is the assurance of your place in someone's heart."

"If you wish to stand next to the fire, by all means. You're the one who'll be burned." 

"If you were standing where I am, you would understand. It's terrifying to discover that freedom is not what you thought. That love is not what you thought." 

"Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself."

“It's not exciting if nothing can go wrong.”

“Everyone mourns the first blossom.
Who will grieve the rest who fall?”

“I would like to be a hero.”

“How was it possible to feel such agony when someone’s name was mentioned, yet forget them in duress?”

“You should think less about making people like you, and more about making them owe you.”

“That it was probably better this happened sooner, and that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, and all that. But it’s all rot, isn’t it?”