Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it.

I like the way men cry. They're efficient.

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.

Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.

I'm sorry, " I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

We have weakened our economy in America. We need a strong economy.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.