The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.