As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.

I'm sorry, " he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that.

So what’s your story?” Ryan asks.Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. “My story?”“Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace.

He's the boy who smokes Marlboro cigarettes and I'm the girl who makes theater puppets. Dreams and ashes—two things in the universe that should never meet because they are opposites, right?

Brevity is the soul of wit.

He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only

Nothing speaks louder than your heart. Listen to what it's telling you.

He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

I consist of a little body and a soul.

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.