50 quotes
American author
“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
on Love
"If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?"
on Grief
"Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed."
on Ambition
"She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone."
on Life
"The cost of growth is always a small act of violence."
on Philosophy
"Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others."
on Identity
"I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live"
on Mental Health
"The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to."
"All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."
"You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here."
on Emotions
"If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?"
"What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior."
"You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them."
"You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them."
"Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it."
"For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love."
"There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?"
on Truth
"Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound."
"I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else."
on Wisdom
"There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones."
