“Time says “Let there be”every moment and instantlythere is space and the radianceof each bright galaxy.And eyes beholding radiance.And the gnats’ flickering dance.And the seas’ expanse.And death, and chance.”

“The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.”

“Boshafte Wahrheiten sind nur dann gut, wenn kein Fremder sie liest.”

“Wherever there’s hope there’s a trial.”

“The blood jet is poetryThere is no stopping it.”

“Ah! Where are you hiding? Happiness is looking for you. Come out in the sunshine. All the darkness will vanish and happiness will surround you.”

“The matters we or the world might consider trivial, He cares about and wants to remedy. He longs to relieve our worries and has promised to supply our most fundamental needs.”

“We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one’s own deception is to accuse others of deceit.”

“The sea, to be happy, like hearts, must be stirred.”

“There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it’s one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.”

“The only way love can last a lifetime is if it’s unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.”

“I’m finally at peace with the world, and with everyone in it.That’s why I just want to smile all day long.”

“I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”

“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn’t based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn’t true.”

“Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”