• If you do not live on the edge you are taking up to much space
• His hands were the kind of hands that knew work. They understood what a day really was.

and that is all that matters.

• We drove into a great sunset;we lived a life with no regret
• “I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.”
• Most dearly held last line for moody and secretive teenagers everywhere: Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
• “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
• We must be our own before we can be another's.
• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
• “Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
• “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”-Elbert Hubbard
• “Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
• “Live truth instead of professing it.”
• That was not love - that was excitement, adrenaline, and tequila! Besides, I needed the course credit.
• “That’s right. I’m out of here. Do not chase me down or text me or try to talk me into going out to lunch. I don’t have time to figure out if I have time for a run. I’m just going. The world will not fall apart in my absence. I might miss somebody’s birthday cake or a discussion of last night’s season finale. Even if I do, who cares? I’m coming back with a state of mind three coffees, two flirtatious emails and a week of vacation can’t buy. Just do it.”
• “You are what I never knew I always wanted”
• "Thou art to me a delicious torment."
• You're waiting for a train; a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure. But it doesn't matter - because we'll be together
• "The answer is yes, what is the question."
• It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
• Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.”
• If you don't create change, change will create you
• “If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
• "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
• "A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
• "When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

• "She reaches over and puts her hand on top of mine. She's not making a pass at me--she's trying to pass something on."
• "Music is an angry machine. We are all angry machines."
• "My wrist touches hers right at the point of our pulses, and I swear I can feel it. That thrum. We are moving to the music and at the same time we are a stillness. I am not losing myself in the barrage. I am finding her. And she is--yes, she is finding me."
• "Life fails. Songs don't always."
• ”It was love because I created it as love."
• "We kiss like it's a form of clasping."
• "My heartbeat accelerates. I am in the here, in the now. I am also in the future. I am holding her and wanting and knowing and hoping all at once. We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are the underneath every part of this moment. And by making this moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing toward."

500 Days of Summer

• Narrator: This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-reading of the movie 'The Graduate'. The girl, Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan, did not share this belief. Since the disintegration of her parent's marriage she'd only love two things. The first was her long dark hair. The second was how easily she could cut it off and not feel a thing. Tom meets Summer on January 8th. He knows almost immediately she is who he has been searching for. This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story.
• Just because she's likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate.
• I don’t actually feel comfortable being anyone’s anything.
• Ok. I, like being on my own. I think relationships are messy and people’s feelings get hurt. Who needs it? We’re young, we live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world; might as well have fun while we can and, save the serious stuff for later.