“Mistakes are not bad; excuses are.”

“Don’t come back when you realize that I’m rare”

“When you treat your failures as lessons, you can never fail.”

“There are so many bad people in the world. They’ll treat you badly, they’ll haggle and undermine your worth. They’ll calculate what they can get without thinking about what to give. That’s the world. Very seldom, you’ll find someone who will not undermine and haggle your worth, who will take risks for you, who will think about what they can give to you and how they can make you happy. So you see, the rule goes like this— when you find such a person, you don’t let go of them. You stay with them and they stay with you.”

“But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he’d come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.”

“It’s not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.”

“You’re the insane one. You don’t even love the world you created. So how can you expect us to love and respect you?An endless repetition of natural destruction and stupid, meaningless wars. Because we don’t understand it, we have no way to stop it.We may be stupid and not know what to do… But we fight to move forward towards that which we think is right. Not just sticking to the arbitrary boundaries you created.We make lots of mistakes, and get hurt… But we keep believing in miracles. Looking for a truth we can’t yet see.We do it our own way. Because we believe our lives mean something.”

“We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences.”

“I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the paper roses, the only one who chose the reddest red ribbon, and the only one who topped off with a golden card. And so I learned that if people are unhappy, it is only because they don’t know how to look for the paper roses, they don’t see the reddest red ribbon, and they don’t like the little golden cards. We are all in the same wrap-shoppe in this life. But we are different. Because some of us are looking for the paper roses, choosing the reddest red ribbon, and picking up the little golden cards.”