and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.