"I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it's all I've ever wanted.All I've ever known is about leaving or being left."

"I wanted to be able to walk into the kind of places my father walked into. I wanted to understand what it was like to live like he did. I wanted reasons. I wanted answers…But I got nowhere."

"Love is something like the notion that, despite its suffering, Being is good and you should serve Being."

"You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters."

"If it could be brought about that all the billions of beings who inhabit this sphere would refrain from all acts which would in any way mar the happiness of others, that moment the earth would be tran…"