Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth.

You and I share the same DNA.Is there anything more lonely than that?

So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet.

In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.

I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.

He who wants peace must prepare for war.

Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.