The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

There is nothing perfect...only life.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

I love you always. Time is nothing.

Because any guilt the sizeof a speck of dust, or shame, can crush even the best of men, in mountains of weight

I'm definitely not a "Fast and a Furious" guy.

Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.

I love your duck with all its ducky goodness!

No society can ever be so large as one man.

But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside.