I’d rather not know what lies ahead because I like the dark. I like thinking there is something good in the places I can’t see. And that’s not ignorance. That’s just hope.

When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it’s worth fighting to spread.

You don’t know what love is until you find it, ” he whispered, “but when you do, promise me you won’t let it go. Promise you’ll seek it out even when you’re scared it’ll hurt.

The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities—the truth isn’t.

Are you real?” Stupid. Of course he’s real.“Yes, Julie. I’m not the mystical man from your dreams.

If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There’s not a speck of doubt in my mind. He must care.

After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.

Yes, ” I whisper so the others won’t hear, “but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose.

I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.

Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedentedly ourselves in a changing world.

There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

To maintain peace in the world, first maintain peace inside of you. A restless mind can never generate beneficial ideas.

On and off the field, you're my hardest fall, Zoe. No one ever compared. No one ever will.

Real education is about revolution.

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.

What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

When I was 17, I was a Lakers Girl; I was the youngest girl on the squad.

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.