What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror.‘Yes, ’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.

A murderer is a killer without a uniform.

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up , dust yourself off and move on.

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

We live in a world of media that are constantly telling us it is only the shape of your body that matters to how attractive you are, and that's silly.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.