“Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten”

“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”

“Do not give anyone the power to define your character. Let your character define and bring out the good in you as a person.”

“You are my whole heart, Scarlet. And this is breaking it.' My heart cracked open and clear dropped out of me. My mouth opened, and I looked round me and stamped my foot. 'Does this look like a good time to tell me that, you damn stupid boy?' I meant to sound mean but my voice wobbled. 'Now?' He gave a little smile. 'My foul-mouthed warrior.”

“Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.”

“After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?”

“Being temporary doesn't make something matter any less, because the point isn't for how long, the point is that it happened.”

“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”