Because how could he have done this?How could he have chosen to leave me here all alone?

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

What do you mean by yuanfen?"She thought for a minute and replied, "It means: that apportionment of love which is destined for you in this world.

To be a hero holds honor but to be a legend is to live forever.

there are few things harder to imagine than other people’s conversations about yourself.

If you reward candor, you'll get it.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

Should haves lead to death

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one day - to look that good. But I can't.