Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

You guys line up alphabetically by height.

It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.

As I get older, I don't think the world is becoming that funny. Comedy is changing a bit.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations.

I make love to pressure.

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.