If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

Now if we only knew what it means to know, we would be conscious.

When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ("Another empty room")

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.