“A week feels like a year when youre seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched me...”

“People arent always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You cant just meet someone and expect them to be everything yo...”

“When you meet an extraordinary person, its like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people ...”

“Every person comes with a place. It can be a house, a park, a building. When you meet someone, you are unknowingly meeting a place, a two-for-one deal that neither party is really aware of yet. Reg...”

“In the end, there wasnt a right thing to say, only a right thing to do. So I sat further up on the bed and put my hand on Manuelles cheek and our mouths did the rest, finding each other even though...”

“I wanted to tell him then how loneliness can become a tangible thing, after a while. Its something that you carry with you on your shoulder, hold up like a friend with a twisted ankle. It sits with...”

“Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.”

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, runningthat's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the b...”

“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”