Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

No one can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle

When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing?

They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

I always said I wanted to be the best at what I could do. I feel like I can improve.

I mean, nobody's ever thrown a big rock at me or my friends, but we're all pretty tough guys and could probably handle it.