“I wish my nose would blow me for once.”

“What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found? ”

“Just because you're scarred for life doesn't mean you should be scared to live.”

“I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?”

“Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.”

“A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.”

“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didnt understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can...”

“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”

“I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.”

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

“Thad: But this is a boy, and you need to think of your reputation if youre spending time alone with himAri: Learning how to put a man's eye out or take him down at the knees. Very romantic stuff, T...”

“I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale.”

“Thad: “But this is a boy, and you need to think of your reputation if you’re spending time alone with him—”Ari: ”Learning how to put a man's eye out or take him down at the knees. Very romantic stu...”