They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

I’m starting to think that you have a really bad habit of trying to save me.”She turns shy and looks down. “You are worth saving.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

I will never, ever apologize for protecting the safety and security of the American people.

If you aint like me, you aint gotta like me.

People with felony convictions - pending felony convictions should not be able to buy gun, but they should be able to stay in sanctuary cities, if they're illegal, if they cross the border.

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock n roll and ex-wives. In that order.