people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

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.

Spend time with people who enrich your mind, nourish your heart, and illuminate your soul.

If you want to live big, then don't let the small things kill you.

Never stop loving yourself, for how can you truly love someone if you don't love yourself first. And never be afraid to love, for it is one of the most beautiful uglist things of this world.

A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals

Common knowledge, but important nonetheless

The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.