We are now as I wished we could be then.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?