50 quotes found
Author · American · 1978
American author (born 1978)
“Knowing leads to caring.”
“Popularity is teenage heroin.”
“Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.”
“It's a date.""It's a cookie.""It's a cookie date.”
“Only someone who cares could fake not caring so well.”
“Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.”
“Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.”
“I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”
“We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.”
“Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.”
“We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”
“That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.”
“Don't get so focused on where you're going that you forget the people you're travelling with. There's no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.”
“No doesn't mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car.”
“I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.”
“But that's the difference between people and stars. A star's light still shines even if there's no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.”
“There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.”
“It was chance. A random series of events given meaning by somone desperate to prove there's a design to our lives. That the minutes and hours between our birth and death are ore than frantic moment...”
“How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.”
“It begins when hes still a man in a suit, doing the kinds of boring things that men in suits do. The things that no one writes about because they know that boys dont really have nightmares about cl...”
“History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.”