“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”

“What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?'

Be yourself,' said Ipek.”

“Maybe… you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”

“That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act”

“People don't do them around me. I would never allow it. The people who are around me are people that I love, and I don't want to see people that I love hurt themselves.”

“Whenever you doubt what you are doing, remember to love what you have. Remember to love what you do. Remember to love what you give.”

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”

“I think that truth is the highest value, although it has to be embedded in love. What I mean by that is that truth should serve the highest good imaginable. For me, that is what is best for each individual, in the manner that is simultaneously best for the family, and the state, and nature itself. But you can only want that good if you love Being.”

“Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.”

“Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.”