A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel, think and want.

Deeds, not words - you accomplish! Do not talk!

I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.

Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

Beauty isn’t between a size zero and a size eight, it is not a number at all. It is not physical.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, like one movement could break him open.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you. But there's still an anonymity in it.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.