"Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work.. Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest."
"Listen. Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere. In the wind, in the air, in the light. It's all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do.. is listen."
"I read somewhere how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong.. but to feel strong."
"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future."
"Why do you have to carry the burden of someone else’s life?"
"We should be able to kill ourselves in our heads, and then be reborn. To be able to talk, look at each other, be together as if we never met before."
"Feelings are just fleeting, on the surface. But emotions, they are very deep, primal. They linger."
"In many ways I prefer my own company, it gives me time to think."
"A family seems exactly like an archipelago. All part of the same whole, but still seperate and alone and always drifting slowly apart."
"I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark."
