Life — lines worth keeping

No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country.

Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel.

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts.

Life is short. If you don't look around once in a while, you might miss it.

Life isn't fair. Get used to it.

We are all stories in the end. Just make it a good one.

How wild it was, to let it be.

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.

You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly.

Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others.

Because survival is insufficient.

You can escape a town, but you cannot escape blood.

I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments.

A guy needs somebody to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life.

The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short.

You are all a lost generation.

To a parent, no matter how old your child is, they are always your baby.

Do you think it's possible to have a childhood that's too happy?

It's never the changes we want that change everything.

Strange to be almost fifty. I feel like I just understood how to be young.

Wake up. Live your life, every last drop. Then die peacefully.

You do not want to live, you simply do not want to die.

First, I got myself born.

The world is water, and we are all just passing through.

Life is not fair. It never was, isn't now and won't ever be.