“She had this way of always finding the good and believing in everything despite all she had seen.”

“The purpose of this glorious life is not simply to endure it, but to soar, stumble, and flourish as you learn to fall in love with existence. We were born to live, my dear, not to merely exist.”

“And as she fell apart, her shattered pieces began to bloom blossoming until she became herself exactly as she was meant to be...”

“Never place yourself above your fellow man, for we are all, each and every one of us, born of equal rights to the nourishing earth beneath and the wonder of the stars above.”

“And as she fell apart, her shattered pieces began to bloom — blossoming until she became herself exactly as she was meant to be...”

“My heart sped up at the change in him. It was rare that I saw the hard-faced version of Preston standing in front on me. I was used to funny, pain-in-the-ass Preston. Easy-going Preston. The Presto...”

“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.”

“We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”

“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt co...”

“Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut yourself opening a can of tuna fish and you die. One puncture in your foot and your life leaks ou...”

“The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths”

“But maybe that isn't possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers. Maybe it's the definition of madness to believe I'm right and everyone els...”

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

“This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator that is what I once thought the world.”

“It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!”