I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isn’t yet ready to handle you and me side by side again.

It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.

No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world.

Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.

People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.

What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?

She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behaviour. It prevents their behaviour from destroying your heart.

Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher.

Chemically, I'm as off as I can be. But you fix me.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits.

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure.

I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.