"This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing."
"Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie."
"Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom."
"Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."
"Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes."
"Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."