Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again.

Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.

Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.

Sometimes you have to learn to love what's good for you.

I honestly have no idea how to live without you.

When I told you I didn't want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.

Try not to trip, " she added. "We don't have time for a concussion today."I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.

The thing about the sun… is that it’s always there. Like sometimes, you can’t see it, but it never really goes away.

Sorry if I can't be the right monster for you Bella.

Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't feel like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? Just myself.

Without hope, we lose heart.

When there is harmony between thoughts and deeds, there is peace.

All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.

Strive to be happy rather than downhearted or miserable—hopeful rather than resigned and doubtful.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.