If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

it is the nature of stars to cross

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.

Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.