When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final hours come, people want to go home.

Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.

Never allow anyone embarrass you without your consent.

What was I to you?" he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything.

If something went wrong, he’d pay the price. He couldn’t allow any innocent people to be hurt this time. From HEAR NO EVIL

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

I believe in love - yes, I'm one of those girls.