"You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back."

"We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils."

"Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot."

"We see the beauty within and cannot say no."

"His lies were so exquisite I almost wept."

"The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us."

"It is no way to live, to wait to love."

"Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn't it gorgeous?"

"Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful."

"All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose."

"If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air."

"I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy."

"I see colors like you hear jet planes."

"Goddamn sometimes I only want this feeling to stay and last."

"Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto."

"Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves."

"And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."

"Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?"

"When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made."

"I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools."

"Thank you," he says. "Thank who?" "I don't know. You?" "No, not me. Jesus." "Thank you, Jesus?" "Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun."

"Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure."

"I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind."

"3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs."

"Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore."

"Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane."

"How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting."

"It all meant something. Until it didn't."

"Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)"

"You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that won't exist or be remembered in a week. You're leaving no evidence you lived. There's no proof."

"This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable."

"We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day."

"My feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring."

"Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light."

"You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently."

"We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun."

"But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes."

"I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run."

"Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are."

"He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?"

"He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her."

"Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?"

"What is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?"

"But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be."

"Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage."

"Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole."

"You're breaking out of character, again."

"My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving."

"Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts."

"This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love."