I'd like to go out knowing that I helped a few people along the way.

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

Dreams don't always have to exist while the sun's down and your eyes are shut

Therapy is about every kids nightmare when people are telling you that you need to get help but all you really want is a hug.

You are who you are and that's the most beautiful thing in the world.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well.

Being a fan doesn't mean being there from the start... It means being there till the end.

Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.

I don't know about you, but this whole life thing has been the cause of all my problems.

I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

Ian squeezed my hand and leaned in to whisper through all the hair. His voice was so low that I was the only one who could hear. 'I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful.

I am not concerned with verisimilitude... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself.