Words worth keeping

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.