Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

I think forever is an incorrect concept.

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a lacquered wooden boat approached us on the canal below. One of them, a woman with curly blond hair, maybe thirty, drank from a beer then raised her glass towards us and shouted something. "We don't speak Dutch," Gus shouted back. One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.