The best things in life are crazy.

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

I don't want you to be my fan. I want you to be mine.

I know you. Inside and out, Sara. I know you, and I’ve accepted it all. Every bit of the crazy. And I love you anyway remember?

Every bride is beautiful. It’s like newborn babies or puppies. They can’t help it.

Sometimes there’s no cure for the crazy.” Dale sighed, stroking my hair. “I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that’s the cure.

You think he’s perfect and he’s safe and, in your head, he can do anything... but he can’t save you, Sara... and I can’t save you either.

But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself.

I think fear is normal, Cade. Just don't let it win.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

We make it all up, even that we don't.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.