Losers don't deserve an explanation.

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”

“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”

“Did you know that wasn’t me, the other Max?” I asked.<br /> “Yeah.”<br /> “When?”<br /> “Right away.”<br /> “How?” I persisted. “We look identical....

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do...

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

“Silence is so freaking loud” <br /> “Silence is so freaking loud”

“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

“Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.”