Depression isn’t a war you win. It’s a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It’s one bloody fray after another.
I saw the world from the stars’ point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.
We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.
Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.
We’re not words, Henry, we’re people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.
That’s the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can’t live in them.
Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.
Don’t get so focused on where you’re going that you forget the people you’re travelling with. There’s no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.
But that’s the difference between people and stars. A star’s light still shines even if there’s no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.
How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.
History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn’t have to be who we are.
Bonding over illegal drugs hadn’t magically solved our problems,
Just the perfect peace of nothingness. That’s what I believed.
That’s the problem with memories: you can visit them but you can’t live with them.
No doesn’t mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car.
There’s an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.
A star’s light still shines even if there’s no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.
I hate Jesse for leaving me behind. If he asked, I would have walked into the air with him.
While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.
Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don’t. Because we are the ants.
The universe is more than thirteen billion years old. What is the value of a single kiss compared to that?
I wasn’t sure what was happening between us, but I didn’t want it to happen without me.
We’re not words…we’re people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.
Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love’s only demand is that we fall.
I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.
As human beings, we’re born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken.
Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility.
We aren’t just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It’s funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate.
She’s the gristle stuck between Time’s teeth, and I love her for it.
And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.
How can you make an informed decision about whether to save the world if you never leave your tiny part of it?
If a kid looks like he doesn’t give a shit, it’s not because he doesn’t believe in himself anymore; it’s because no one else believes in him.
I felt as if each person within visual range were slowly draining the life from me. We were all connected, and the more them there were, the more I wanted to crawl under a table and cry.
We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Our deaths will mean nothing to them.
Making out with Marcus had always felt like a race to the finish line, but with Diego I felt like I’d already won.
Only someone who cares could fake not caring so well.