You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.