Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?" "Nothing" I said, "Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.

Unknowns in life are adventures, avoid calling them fears.

Miracles are always there, look around and you will find them.

To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things.

When you help other people you also help yourself it's impossible to not feel good when you do good for other people

The jury passing on the prisoner's life May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

People take the feeling of full for granted.

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.