I am the beast at the end of the rope.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

Kiss me with love like a butterfly kisses flowers to find and taste the nectar of life.

If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.

I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

I want you by my side. Forever. (Full Metal Alchemist)

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

I can't say enough, how important my faith is to how I play the game and who I am.

You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.