Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.
It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.
The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.
I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.
No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)
I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.
When in doubt, ingest carbs.
Faith that is going to be trusted is going to be tested.
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a lot. It kind of took possibilities out of my world, and made the focus of things very narrow.