Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.