But sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until it’s already knocked you flat on your back.

Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.

Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo

Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past

I will call bullshit on that so many times that the word bullshit will lose all meaning. -Milo

we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.

I’ll take my chances against your fickle heart if it means it’s mine.

Her eyes were a bottomless ocean that I would give up air to explore.

Oh how I had underestimated tender kisses.

Your pain made you strong. It made youpassionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade

Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority

Let deeds match words.

The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.