Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.

There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.

For us to expect development in our nations, we must first bring development to the minds and understandings of our people.The change we quest for outwardly must first be attained inwardly.

Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.

As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first.

Art has no end but its own perfection.

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen