No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.

Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.

Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.

The only thing standing between you and your dreams is ... reluctance.

Listen." Jennifer reverted, "I didn't mean anything by all of that before. I understand what you were trying to do and ..." She struggled for the right words. "Sweetie, like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you. Open yourself up to it and there's no stopping your heart.

The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour.