I’m not a damsel and there is no distress

I just think about how saying that you love someone can make your heart feel like some sort of brownie sundae, warm, gooey, sweet and good.

We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

Home is where the heart is.

I like a lot of things that aren't good for me.

The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, “Aha. Of course. That's right.”

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.

What we do, our choices, that's what defines us

A great teacher is one that helps their students to become great. In return, the students appreciate the teacher for their success.

You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.

...real teenage boys aren't like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things. They're still learning, just like you.

My girlfriend thinks I look like a reptile - it's not the best.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it.

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.

More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.