That’s what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there’s a possibility they can be together.

Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.

That's the best part. The how.

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there's more to me than that. I just haven't had the chance yet to show it.

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.

Somebody knows.

If you speak things into existence, they will become real..

To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

I hate the word famous because it has no substance.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.