For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.

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.

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.

No one wants to see a boring tube sock.

Hollywood is tripping over its own feet.

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.