We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

The hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time.

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

The more a person can look beyond gender orientation, the happier and more fulfilling life is likely to be.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.