“Enjoy the movie. I hear the guy gets the girl” I said, my tone bold and flirtatious. “Which guy?” She laughed, playing along. I could hear her smile through the phone. It felt good to make her smile. Really good.I paused before answering, “The one who deserves her.”

“Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.”

“Happy girls are the prettiest”

“She fulfills every purpose while touching the sky. Can anything ever stop her fly?”

“No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, don’t ever, ever, ever lose hope!”

“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.”

“Do not expect from others what you cannot offer yourself.” —Sepideh Irvani, PsyD”

“One day, I would like to turn on the news and hear, there is Peace on Earth”

“It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.”

“…Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel’s hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”

“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”

“The thing about oracles is that they talk back.”