“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”

“Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.”

“Like Mom, Zoe thoughtlike Mom used to. And thats where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poetry suffused with twilight and questions. Its not even good poetry, she thought. I dont have talent, its...”

“Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!”

“Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!”

“You've got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone's hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people's eyes like the...”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”