You can’t cheat if there are no rules

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?

An organizer is a leader who does not lead but gets behind the people and pushes.

It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

I want you," she said. "I told you so," he said.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.