Quotes
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds...
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.