All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

I count everything loss, to gain anything under the power of grace in Jesus Christ.

maybe silent hurting is the new Mid-Western love

Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward