one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

The door wasn’t closing. Shiloh’s spirit opened up as she considered the possibilities.

... there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

No one can stop death, Omari. It is normal and certain. And nothing should get in the way of a person’s true destiny.

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

Lovers are the coolest their hearts beat the best & they kiss magic as hell

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are