He wished that they could go through life like this. That he could physically put himself between Eleanor and the world.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.

I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.

I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it.

There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.

We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.