“The world is a terrifying place, more than I ever realized. But if I had my whole life to do over again, that's literally the only thing I'd change. I'd stop being so afraid of other people.”

“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really go...”

“You know that old clich about how millions of deaths being a statistic, while the loss of just one life is a tragedy? If that's true, what is it when you lose something that never even had a chance...”

“What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.”

“Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.”

“I suppose the only time we ever really get to be happy in lifelike one hundred percent blissfulis when were little kids.""Because theres less to worry about?""Because were too stupid to know how wo...”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”