You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

Just live well. Just live

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me..... we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.

I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.

We live in a world that relies on technology.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

I sympathize with every kitchen porter.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

I think that for the developing world there are many versions of capitalism, and countries have to choose one that's appropriate.

First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.

As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind

It can't help but knock things down.