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When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. - Author object (591)

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once. - Author object (591)

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful. - Author object (591)

If you're good at something, never do it for free. - None

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. - Author object (591)

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. - Author object (591)

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person. - Author object (591)

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? - Author object (591)

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting. - Author object (591)

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. - Author object (591)

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. - Author object (591)

I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is. - Author object (591)

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. - Author object (591)

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste. - Author object (591)

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart. - Author object (591)

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved. - Author object (591)

He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart. - Author object (591)

Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. - Author object (591)

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things. - Author object (591)

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. - Author object (591)