I did not know that when you drop a stone of a stupid choice in the pool of your life, it can cause a tidal wave to surge outwards, destroying everyone and everything in its path.

I don’t want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.

I hate him for what he’s done, but I still love him for the man he was.

For one moment I felt the world stand still, and I allowed myself the indulgence of revelling in doing something reckless and foolish because I was madly in love and I didn’t have to worry about the consequences.

We all have choices. Every single one of us. Some of us are too blind to see them. Some of us don’t make use of them. Some of us don’t use them correctly. And some of us are completely robbed of them because we are trapped in a situation we can’t escape. We still have choices, though.

I could grow to like this man, I realized. I could grow to like him a lot.

But” doesn’t make an apology, it makes an excuse of your behaviour.

She fizzed when she smiled.

She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn’t know – possibly didn’t want to know – that happiness comes from the inside.

We seem to be tiny specks in the vast ocean of our DNA pool when it is all mapped out, and it is that – the literal relativity of it all – which takes their breath away.