(Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.)

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

Not thou, White rose, but thy Ensanguined sister is The dear companion of my heart's Shed blood.

Fame overcomes everything.

I have an interest in making first-person games.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.

A leader is someone who demonstrates what's possible.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.