79 quotes found
“Never bullshit a bullshitter.”
“I'm not a vain person, but I am human...”
“People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.”
“Across the seat our eyes are holding hands.”
“I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.”
“Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.”
“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
“What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with V...”
“I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegance and euphoria," and how it describes exactly what I feel with Violet. For once, I don't want to...”
“The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.”
“But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?”
“The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.”
“You shouldn't spend all your time worrying about the love that leaves, because then you might overlook the love that was always there.”
“For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.”
“She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die.”
“Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.”
“I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom...”
“Ive always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes”
“Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.”
“Now, if you asked him what he was going to do with himself, he'd tell you he guessed he might do anything he set his mind to. But he'd say it in a far-off way, as if he didn't really mean it or car...”
“Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.”
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease j...”
“Im sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help. I feel responsible.”
