Be brave. Be angry. Don't trust anyone.

Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.

Turns out there's a reason they call it falling in love, because when it happens - really happens - that's exactly how it feels. There's no doing or trying, you just let go and hope that someone's going to be there to catch you.

All elements have a counterweight. Fire is the counterweight of water. Air is the counterweight of earth. The counterweight of chaos is the soul.

Such is human memory... you forget the truth and believe what makes you feel better.

And despite the fact that they all had their eyes open, every one of them looked dead.

I think maybe it‘s the things we don‘t want to talk about that are the things people most want to hear.

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.

There are some things that can't be changed with words. Some things have to be seen. They have to be felt.

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back.

To keep walking a path between loyalty to your family and loyalty to what you know is right. One of these days, you‘re going to have to make a choice.

You‘re…normal.” “That‘s the first time anyone‘s called me that in my life.

I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

It wasn‘t freedom she wanted. It was belief in something—a prize big enough to run for and to fight for and to keep on reaching toward no matter what.

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

Maybe that's all that praying was, she thought, just wishing good outcomes on other people.

No matter where we are, we‘ll always share the same sky. We can always find each other in the same constellation.

I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.

I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.

why is straight the default? everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi or whatever. I'm just saying

Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.

Nature cannot be reprogrammed forever. Humans are not meant to run like software. You cannot hack the human condition

She's my purpose and we're going to save each other. We're going to save everyone. And then I'm going to convince her that she's supposed to stay here. With me.

It seemed like the second you tried to tell someone why you loved someone else, it took the luster off it, like pinning a butterfly down in a case—it never quite captured it.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There‘s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods…
But even the great can tremble with fear.
Even the great can fall

Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.

It strikes me that I cannot claim this country‘s serene coves and sun-soaked beaches without also claiming its poverty, its problems, its history. To say that any aspect of it is part of me is to say that all of it is part of me.

And most of all, she loved the way books could transport her from her otherwise mundane and stifling life and offer the experiences of a hundred other lives.

No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.

When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.

I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I'm possessed. By a whole lot of stupid.