As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people dont talk about race amongst themselves!

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.