It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.

I behave in public like I behave in private.

May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.

The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional'.

Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.