I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold-hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.”

•“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.” •"You act like it's you against the world, but really it's just you against yourself."

•"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

•"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

•"People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you."

•"Find what you love and let it kill you."

•"A maior dor do vento é não ser colorido."

•"Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high."

•"I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship."

•"Whisper a dangerous secret to someone you care about. Now they have the power to destroy you, but they won’t. This is what love is."

•"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

•"Breathe in, breathe out."

•"And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears and love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears. Get over your hill and see what you find there, with grace in your heart and flowers in your hair."

•"She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something."

•"Adults talk about being happy because they largely are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you."

•"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

•" There are days that walk through me and I cannot hold them."

•"I am all the poems I read; full of still sentences and broken rhymings; an upshot of too cordial thoughts."

•“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

•“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

•“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

•“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

•“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” •“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

•“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

•“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.”

•"The trick, kiddo,” his mom replies slowly. “Is finding someone who complements you instead of completes you. You need to be complete on your own."

•“I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time."

•“I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.”

•"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."

•"Sometimes I get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.”

•"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."

•“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”

•“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

•“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

•“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high; then life seems almost enchanting, after all.”

•“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”

•"Remember to be your own kind of beautiful."

•"My sister told me a soul mate is not the person who makes you the happiest, but the one who makes you feel the most."

•"I'm pretty sure that love and light have something to do with each other."

•"Don't waste too much of today on yesterday."

•"Always remember to put the glass down."