1. "True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops."

Love is sweet, though there are many things that may seem sweeter. Especially when you become sick of it. Or just sick.

2. "Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all."

In life, only few things are fair because there is much that is not. And much that is not fair so even fewer things can be.

3. "Cynics are simply thwarted romantics."

Those who profess to not believe in love, or to have never been in it, are those who long to be. As much as they want to believe. They've just been spurned for the faith too many times.

4. "Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

A life of convenience is just a brochure -- beautifully decorated and eloquently worded. But no amount of balloons or fairytales will ever be enough to spare us of the hurt that comes with being alive. After all, we enter this world crying.

5. "Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high."

It is often the most beautiful things which allows those around us to perceive us as such that remain hidden. When we aspire to what we believe is beautiful. A belief that withers and crumbles. Leaving behind nothing to call it such.