“Remember, Pia,” he whispers. “Perfect is as perfect does.”

“Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.”

“My mother always wanted to live near the water,” she said. “She said it’s the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.”

“It’s ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you’re the one that has the gun.”

“May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours”

“You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?”

“Do you want this to be a love story?”

“God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or in fear is something called freewill. Every man was born with freewill. Some people use it, and some people use any excuse not to. Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. And in the end, when God asks you: “Who told you to kill one of my children?”And you tell him, “My leader.”He will then ask you, “And are THEY your GOD?”

“Nothing is ever certain.”

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”

“I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.”

“Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.”

“I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.”