Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

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.

EFFECT OF A TRUE TEACHER GOES UP TO ETERNITY THROUGH HIS STUDENTS.

If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.

Life is full of chances, and today I hope you take each and every one of them.

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.