My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

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.

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.