Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!

Hearts don’t realize they’ve been lied to. They still love anyway.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

Everybody that knows me knows I have a temper.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar.

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.