“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“Knowing others is intelligence.”

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.”

“Live to the point of tears.”

“If you like her, if she makes you happy and you feel like you know her, don't let her go.”

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”

“"Finnick?" I say. "Maybe some pants?"”

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”

“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”

“Enjoy it. Because it's happening.”

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

“The minute I heard my first love story,”

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

“Life is for the living.”

“Don't talk to me.”

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”

“You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.”

“We live for books.”

“One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.”

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

“Begin at the beginning, the King said very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

“Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.”

“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”

“Do not fear being eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”

“I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long; I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it, and I will love you through that as well. If you don't need the medication, I will love you, too. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness, and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.”

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

“There is a loneliness in this world so great.”

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”