“It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.”

“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”

“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”

“In order to rise<br /> From its own ashes<br /> A phoenix<br /> First<br /> Must<br /> Burn.”

“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut the hell up'.”

“I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let...

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

“Hope<br /> Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, <br /> Whispering 'it will be happier'...”

“Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –"<br /> "Blown up a toilet? We've never...

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”