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“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”
― Maureen Johnson, 13 Little Blue Envelopes

“i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.”
― Maureen Johnson, 13 Little Blue Envelopes

“People don't change . . . You just sort of have to take them like they are.”
― Maureen Johnson, 13 Little Blue Envelopes

“Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.”
― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

“Just remember this- weird's good. Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it's never going away.”
― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

“I don't believe in that - the husband and wife having to be just alike. I think it's better if they kind of offset each other. Like if they have these different dimensions they can bring to each other.”
― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Easy enough to fight when the monster kept its distance, easy enough to draw the line. But when the moster was literally outside the door, that's when your actions mattered. The hard choice wasn't opening the door. The hard choice was keeping it closed.”
― Carla Buckley, The Things That Keep Us Here

“True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.”
― Seth Brown

“If you want to dress up like a giraffe, and go to school like that, and that makes you happy then do it!”
― Andy Biersack

“The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone, and feel like you've come home? What we had wasn't about sex, or about being with someone just to show off what you've got, the way it was for other kids our age. We were, well, meant to be together. Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

“If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“Happiness is what you choose to remember.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“He could stand pain, himself. He just couldn't stand hers.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact