"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful."

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."

"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."

"I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling."

"There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things."

"To love truly means recognizing that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."