“Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.It just has to be.”

“I want you. I want you so badly I can’t stand it. When you left, it felt like the world got darker. Like I couldn’t truly see anything. Couldn’t feel anything.”

“I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn’t live long. It’s simply not written in my stars.”

“Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.”

“I choose to write because it’s perfect for me. It’s an escape, a place I can go to hide. It’s a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It’s a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It’s a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It’s control, when I feel so out of control. It’s healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it’s fun, when life is just flat-out boring.”

“there isn’t enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails.”

“She cracked a smile. “So what’s your poison?” He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. “Life.” “Ah,” she said ruefully. “That’ll kill you.”

“The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.”

“There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.”

“Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.”

“A broken heart in real life isn’t half as dreadful as it is in books. It’s a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won’t think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.”

“Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.”

“The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.”

“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.”

“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create – this is man.”