❝ Because when something happens, she’s the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.❞

❝ Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.❞

❝ No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remained unsaved.❞

❝ We lie best when we lie to ourselves.❞

❝ I’ve spent so much time in my head and in my heart that I forgot to live in my body.❞

❝ Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.❞

❝ Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.❞

❝ I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.❞

❝ The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.❞

❝ Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go, but rather learning to start over.❞

❝ Just because you refuse to acknowledge something, refuse to look or think about it, doesn’t mean it’s not there, that it doesn’t affect you and the choices you make.❞

❝ Now, I learned a long time ago how to be quiet on the outside while I’m freaking on the inside. How to turn away like I don’t see all the things that need to be seen, just to keep peace. How to lie low and act like I want nothing, expect nothing, and hope for nothing so I don’t become more trouble than I’m worth.❞

❝ Well I try my best to be just like I am,
But everybody wants me to be just like them.❞

❝ Scars remind us where we’ve been. They don’t have to dictate where we’re going.❞

❝ Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?❞