She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Songwriting was their way to converse with the universe.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.

The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.