💬 Quotes

"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them."

"If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you."

"It was a time when the world seemed to be composed of nothing but long, golden afternoons and the smell of cut grass."

"Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright."

"We are all dying, it's just a matter of how we spend the time between the beginning and the end."

"Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England."

"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own."

"I’m not a doctor because I wanted to be a doctor. I’m a doctor because I’m the only one who is."

"The world is full of people who are not going to be happy, and they all want to know what to do about it."

"Everything is a choice. You can choose to be useful, or you can choose to be happy. They are rarely the same thing."

"Being useful is the only way to be happy. If you aren't useful, you're just taking up space."

"The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose."

"The only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—vet them, tolerate them, forgive them—and let them vet, tolerate, and forgive you."

"You won't understand, but you must believe me: there is no shame in surviving. But there is no glory in it, either."

"Wasn't that the point of life, to see how much pain you could endure, how much you could absorb and still keep walking?"

"You are who you are, Jude St. Francis. You have always been who you are. You are not your past."

"We are all broken, each in our own way, and the art of living is in finding someone whose brokenness fits with your own."

"There is a time in your life when you expect the world to be fair, and there is a time when you realize it isn't. The transition between these two times is the end of childhood."

"She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day."

"He felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. He saw the truth, which was that he was not in the least like her."