So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

Kisses are a means to plant on another's lips a smile glossed with happiness.

Never compare your insides to someone else's outsides.

The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.

We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.

He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.