“I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.”

“Sometimes your music sounds like theres too much inside you. Maybe even you couldnt get it all out. Maybe thats why you died. Like you exploded from the inside.”

“I dont know anyone who has a perfect family to start with. And I think thats why we make up our own. regular weirdos together. I feel that way about my friends.”

“People love you for what they want to see in you, not for what you are. That's a sad thing to learn.”

“Words can't be wood enough for a lot of things. But you know, I guess we have to try.”

“If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?”

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”