“That‘s what life is. Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn‘t something that happens to you. It‘s something you make yourself, all the time. Life is that half minute in the morning before your cat remembers she‘s kind of a grouch, when she pours out her love and doesn‘t give a flying newton who sees it.”
"Dogs are always good and full of selfless love. They are undiluted vessels of joy who never, ever deserve anything bad that happens to them." ?
"My two worlds just collided. Surprisingly, everything's all right."
"People need stories. It's one of the things that make us who we are. We crave stories, because they make us more than ourselves, they give us an escape and they give us knowledge. They entertain us and they change us, as they have changed and entertained us for thousands of years."
"But love and disease are both like electricity, Weetzie thought. They are always there--you can't see or smell or hear, touch, or taste them, but you know they are there like currents in the air. We can choose, Weetzie thought, we can choose to plug into the love current instead."
"It's a good thing to come in second because you learn that if you can win, you can lose. And you should learn to be a good loser, not just a good winner." If only all of our children were taught this!
"The pain and price of starting to pay attention is the awareness of how much we have already missed and how much we will miss every moment even if starting now we stayed awake and aware every second until we dropped dead."
