I think that mankind can do better than that, and I wish to be a witness to this small and stubborn possibility. - James Baldwin

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

Close up, the person's imperfections matter, but from far away, you see your own.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.