I’ve never trusted anyone all the time. It’s the people I care about the most that always seem to do the most damage.

Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

Sometimes things change, because there just isn’t any way for them to stay the same.

Body art isn’t a contest. The only person that has to like it is the person stuck with it for the rest of their life. As long as you love it when you see it, that’s all that matters.

When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.

It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora

My home is a little more complicated than coordinates on a map.

Love doesn’t always have to be spoken out loud.

The fact that so many of my friends were stumbling headfirst into their happily-ever-after gave my tired heart hope that I couldn't be far behind.

Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique.

Being Captain No-Fun really is no fun

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul.

In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end.

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

I like to think there's more to a person than just one thing.

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.