That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

The power of faith is suspending judgment long enough to gain the rewards available.

Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.

The true value of networking doesn't come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.