Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost.

Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.

Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.

And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.

No one commits suicide because they want to die.

Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.

Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

... there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson

In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.

Take all of your wasted honorEvery little past frustrationTake all of your so-called problems, Better put 'em in quotations

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not.

I've never considered failure.

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.