Books are a uniquely portable magic.
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
Books were safer than other people anyway.
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
Life isn’t about picking out the parts you like and leaving the rest, it’s learning to coexist with it all and choosing to see the beauty, the grace, and the hilarity while also experiencing the inevitable disappointment and failure.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Look around you. A fear of living, of truly living, is the most common fear there is.
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness.
The great, the unspeakable crime against life is not that we have lived mistakenly or badly, but that we have lived cautiously and half-heartedly, and without belief.