Everybody is a main character to someone

You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.

The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream

It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising

But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

Regret is just life's aftertaste.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I’ll sing.

When it is a question of money everybody is of the same religion.

When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.

There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Every building must have... its own soul.

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.