I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn.

Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Dominance is one of the most pervasive and important behaviors among wolves in a pack.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet!