Sometimes it takes courage to leave.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

When I write I am the real me.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said.

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation."I beg pardon, my queen, " he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

The present is great with the future

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.