Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.

We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.

The universe is more than thirteen billion years old. What is the value of a single kiss compared to that?

It used to bother me when I read books where the main characters fell in love or became best friends after only knowing each other a short time. I’d complained about it to Tommy once, and he’d said that’s how it happens in real life. Everyone we meet begins as a stranger, so we project onto them who we need them to be until we get to know them. He said we have to fall in love with the idea of a person before we can fall in love with the actual person.

History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.

Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.