and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you.

The problem with books is that they end.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.

we’re too old to be young.

... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.

You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you’re blasphemous because all you want is You

In the cage, you feel loved, not trapped. Just like me.

I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.

We solely choose how we interpret something said, a behavior or action of another. No one can make us feel anything we don’t choose for ourselves.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

Unfortunately, I don't usually get to see much outside the Olympics as I compete almost every day. I have been to Rio a few times and got a tour of the sites. It is a spectacular city.