History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions.

She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.

Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.