But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

The Venn Diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.