I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.