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

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.

Everything that comes together falls apart.

You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.

What’s the meaning of life? Other people.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.