I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.

I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.

I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they were outside, people grabbed hold of them.

Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.

Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.

We make patterns, we share moments.

All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.

It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

The time is now. What you have to do, do it now.

Spiritual maturity testifies of one’s level of patience

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

A youth is to be regarded with respect.

Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women.

Allow Christ's Atonement to change and heal your heart.

INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL

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