“Almost always, jealousy is rooted in some sort of fear: of abandonment, of being replaced, of losing the attention of someone you love, of being alone. Jealousy isn't really about the person you feel jealous of. It's about you: your feeling that you might lose something precious.”

“True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”

“Hope will break the heart better than any sorrow.”

“Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond”

“We moved from being a part of nature to being apart from nature.”

“...paradise is a world where everything is a sanctuary & nothing is a gun...”

“There was this one weekend, a million summers ago, when I sat on the shore drinking a frozen limeade, and I realized the only thing I wanted to look at was the way the sun hit the girls swimming in the lake. The problem has always been this: When I look at you, I taste lime, and I see light on water.”

“I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.”