“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.”

The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.

Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.

Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.

It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.

Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.

It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.

Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.

You fit me better than my favorite sweater.

My conversations with my mom have always been and will always be some of my favorite memories.

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

I probably have a hundred dresses from over the years. I just can’t seem to let go of my favorites!

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it’s mobile meditation.