Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No, ” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.

Love is worth everything. Everything.

A photograph is a kind of time machine.

o•cean (ˈōSHən) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]

I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.

seriously. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

Some dreams really do come true. That said, most dreams are weird as shit.

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

But no one can ever say I didn’t sing.

Dying people often become childish.

Italians still know how to enjoy life, even as the country seems stuck in place.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!