Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her.