life

"Just because you're scarred for life doesn't mean you should be scared to live."

"Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity."

"I drink like a fish, and I swim in my thirst. I’m so parched for her love that I think I may drown in my desire."

"I had a second friend come over to my house, and do you know what I called her? A refill. If relationships aren’t drinkable, why do we thirst for them so much?"

"The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life--or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window--is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people."

"Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently."

"Everybody's damaged by something."

"Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all."

"What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us."

"I’m an only child, and therefore I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me, they wouldn’t even be parents."

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment"

"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

"If I saw a hitchhiker wearing a tie-dyed shirt, I’d assume he’s been waiting for a ride since the 1960s. I think that kind of patience is groovy."

"When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it."

"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."

"Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief."