“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

“Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword”

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”

“All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.”

“There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.”

“Hey, I wish we hung out more in high school. Why didnt we?I was hiding, Jake said thoughtfully.Me too.You?In my own way.Hearing that made Jake wonder if theyd all been in hiding, if he hadnt been t...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that”

“I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.”

“I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.”