In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each time anyone moved

Beauty is subjective. You know how sometimes what makes a person attractive is the way they make you laugh or how it seems like they can read your mind?

It makes the idea of in sickness and in health that much more real to see it play out in front of you.

Maybe it's not the first kisses that are meant to be special. Maybe it's the last ones.

You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.

You can be quiet and go back to kissing me, or you can leave.

The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

When one doors closes, another door opens.

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.

There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.