Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Our sense of being a conscious agent who does things comes at a cost of being technically wrong all the time.

No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.

Every family is a family of alligators.

I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.'

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

But it's not the name I'd give to a conqueror of worlds... I would've gone with Thundro or Ragnor. I might just call him Thundro anyway.