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.

And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.

Your brightest light will take you to your greatest heights.

Greatness can only be procured with the currency of time and discipline

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.