No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.

I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.

I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they were outside, people grabbed hold of them.

Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.

Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.

We make patterns, we share moments.

All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.

It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

This zipper only comes down for you.

The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

I have the complete support of the military. I personally served in the navy.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.