“The ocean fascinates me too. How it connects everything and everyone, but at the same time it divides us. Its a mystery, full of life and possibilities. Its justphenomenal.”

“The void inside me starts to fill, but my heart has holes, and whatever it holds will run out, leaving me empty once again.”

“Its all about that cosy, homey feeling, the one you leave behind when you travel across the world.”

“He might not be here, but the day he misses an opportunity to party is the day Jocelyn Wildenstein is considered the paragon of beauty.”

“I hate reading poemsschool made me hate them. Id spend hours interpreting one, just to read the memorandum and realize Id be fucked during exams. I remember making a little asterisk next to every q...”

“Ever since her diagnosis, shes been fading like a light bulb with cancers hand on the rotary dimmer.”

“Disobey God and you are forgiven. Disobey Nature and you get disease.”

“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a sid...”

“Cancer. The word meant the same to me as tsunami or piranha. I had never seen them; I wasn't even quite sure what they were, but I knew they were bad and I knew in many cases they were deadly.”

“It's hard to be a bright light in a dim world.”

“Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.”

“To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!”

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to...”

“[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)”

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. ...”