weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

Because you're my friend, wingnut.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House of Fist is 24/7.

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

When you fall down, just get up again.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.

What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world?