““You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.””

“I was 18 when I wrote that,“ she reminds me. “That’s the age you are when you think someone can actually take your boyfriend. Then you grow up and realise no one takes someone from you if they don’t want to leave.”

“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

“Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.”

“where can I download motivation?”