“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go...

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

“You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!”

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt,...

“Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly...

“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”

“You never fail until you stop trying.”

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

“To be nobody but <br /> yourself in a world <br /> which is doing its best day and night to make you like <br /> everybody else means to fight the hardest...

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”