I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

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And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

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I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

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