It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.

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.

with hope, you can survive any shock.

The purpose of our life is to serve not to observe.

There's no getting rid of you. You are already in my bloodstream and woven into the marrow of my bones.

I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.