All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

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.

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

He hadn't done it, and there was no point thinking about might-have-beens

I believe I got Lyme disease for a reason and if that is to help bring awareness, that is my mission and I will do the best that I can to do that.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

I know that's fun for people to talk about who are fans of the franchise, and it's fun to get to kind of have my own feelings about that as well.

You don't want to live in the past. Everything in life is in the future. You don't want to continue to be buried in the past.

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.