Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.

Any idea that takes away sweet sleeps from you will eventually bring to you sweet life. Be diligent and willing to stay awake until your good is better and your better becomes excellent!

Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!

I think the main thing for kids is to have them believe in themselves.

I wear the midi because I feel if you're going to look ugly, you may as well look this year's ugly.

I am a creature of habit with my food and snacks. I make sure to get in all three meals and drink my Eboost every morning, and lots of hot tea keeps me going!

I believe in the power of the voice of women.

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.