Sometimes I don't get you,' I said.
Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
...there is power in self-sacrifice.
Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, ?Music.
It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.
When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.)
To love another person is to see the face of God.