I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours?-Lou

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

Just live well. Just live

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me..... we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.

I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

I’m often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don’t have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

Sweet cream on an ice cream sandwich!

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.