Grief is like sinking, like being buried.

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.

The silence is so deep it hurts our ears

Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

Be careful with what you say. A girl remembers everything.

If people talk about you behind your back, that would mean you are in front, so stay ahead.

Everyone is equal - a strange Swedish mentality.