Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

All hurt is brain hurt.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a “we.

The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind.

My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.