Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.