And I Quote

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Don’t let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don’t worry about losing your personality, as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

He looked at her the way all girls wanted to be looked at.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.

*Enters a bookstore*

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

“When should you let go?” She asked, with her chin rested on her palm. “When the ‘I love yous’ stop sounding like ‘I love you’,” I answered, “When they begin to sound very much like, ‘I’m sorry’.”

If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.

I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.