“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

“And I’m suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married…?” His voice tightened. “And meanwhile, I’ll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”