And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.

I was tired of being me.

He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.

Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.

I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

One reads alone, even in another's presence.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it.

You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.