“Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.”

“Your whole world ceases to exist and you're nothing but a shell of a person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it her way, me in mine, and you in yours," he said, lifting his hand off of John's...”

“Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.”

“Still trying to save the world?” “Always,” I said, “and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s working. The world is still here.”

“My dad had once told me, crimson-red deep in “the talk,” that with sons, all he had to worry about was one penis, but with a daughter, he had to worry about everyone else’s.”

“Everyone was going crazy, like they’d just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself”

“Wealth mostly ignored the real reality.”

“...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.”