Epigraphs

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

No matter how much our parents hurt us sometimes, the love they have for us is something no one else can replace.

What’s the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying

Breaking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most.

Some wounds are invisible, yet they change everything. They turn us into a version of ourselves we never imagined becoming

One sided friendship teaches you how silence can be louder than words.

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

With love one can live even without happiness.

When someone hurts us, they often say it wasn't intentional and carry on as if nothing happened. Others might even tell us, "Just forget about it, it's not a big deal." But in that moment, it does feel like a big deal.

Why are we so afraid of losing something when nothing in this world belongs to us?

The best revenge you can ever take is forgiveness.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything.

I never have been a coward at heart, though I have always been a coward in action.

Whatever quarrels there may be between them they ought not to call in their own mother to judge between them and tell tales of one another.

There is one case, one only, when man may consciously, purposely, desire what is injurious to himself, what is stupid, very stupid—simply in order to have the right to desire for himself even what is very stupid and not to be bound by an obligation to desire only what is sensible.

How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

For you, a thousand times over

We have to correct and direct nature, and, but for that, we should drown in an ocean of prejudice.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

When reason fails, the devil helps

There is a way to be good again...

I used to believe that communication is the key. But over time, I have realised that understanding is even more important.

The people you love weren’t algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Where there is no love, there is no sense either.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

Words are not deeds.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others!

I am talking too much. It’s because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing

Leave us alone without booksand we shall be lost and in confusion at once.

We think people hurt us, but often it's our expectation that do. We imagine who they should be, and when reality differs, its our own hopes that break.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

It’s not the crime, it’s the confession that matters.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment—as well as the prison.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Man only likes to count his troubles… he doesn’t calculate his happiness.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Hope isn’t something you wait for. It’s something you create.

Being alone doesn’t mean you’re weak. It means you’re still standing.

Every problem has a solution. You just have to be willing to find it.

Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until someone else holds up a mirror.

People make mistakes. That doesn’t make them monsters.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

The human soul is deeper than hell, because hell doesn’t pretend to be good.

Oh, Nastenka! You know sometimes we feel grateful to people for just existing… for living at the same time as we do.

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I’ll show you a happy man. (- Mr. McAllister)

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. ’Twas always thus, and always thus will be. (- John Keating)

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

In the end, love wasn’t about saving someone… it was about choosing them, even when it was hard.

Love, in its truest form, demanded sacrifice—sometimes more than a heart could bear.

You can’t force someone to speak… but you can listen when they’re ready.

I didn’t kill Gabriel… He killed me. All I did was pull the trigger.

Remember, love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.