The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

a good philosopher always have great reading ability.

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

They say that a near death experience makes a person see a flash of their past, but that hasn't happened to me at all.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

Why is it, little Shadowhunter, that your angels are so cold and without mercy? Why do they break that which will not obey them?

When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.