life

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."

"AZRAEL:No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air."

"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."

"There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty."

"All knowledge is worth having."

"There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself."

"Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?"

"it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded."

"All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy."

"There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal."

"Life itself is the proper binge."

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

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

"I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets."

"Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you."

"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"Well, my life hasn't really changed... I've been homeschooled for a long time. So that helped a lot because of shooting and stuff. But, I have had friends who I've been friends with for years and years and they are my true friends, you know?"

"I need to be gentler, I said definitively to myself, as I clenched my fist and shook it in the air. Love takes flight like two powerful wings, but hits like a collection of feathers."

"The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes."