It Will Be Beautiful. Quotes

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

All I think of ever is that I love you.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.

Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes.

What business does memory have with time?

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is.

It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star.

The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him.

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

Silence, too, can be torture.

It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you're some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?

I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.

Got it. Demon. Death. Doom.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.

Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.

She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget.

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss

They really hate you, yes they do. They hate everyone, how 'bout you?

I had died and woken up in High School Musical

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.