Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens — but maybe if it’s how you see them, that’s how they really are.

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful

Susannah continued. "If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan.

My mother was good at that, making people feel normal. Safe. Like as long as she was there, nothing truly bad could happen.

She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.

He smiled at me, and that smile -- he just gets in. His smile did it every time.

I wished I could stay forever, in this moment. Like in one of those plastic snowballs, one little moment frozen in time.

I could survive for months, years, on a crush.

What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?

Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.

Only bugs can truly appreciate the beauty of flowers.

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.