Aurora...

"When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing… you are doing what you were meant to be doing."

"I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dying my hair tonight."

"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness."

"What if you slept?
And what if, in your sleep,
you dreamed?
And what if,
in your dream,
you went to heaven
and there
plucked a strange and beautiful flower?
And what if,
when you awoke,
you had the flower
in your hand?
Ah, what then?"

"A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear."

"Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong."

"It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped."

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."

"I love mankind, it’s people I can’t stand."

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."

"We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think,
“This is the problem I want to have.”
I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
Let our scars fall in love."

"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from."

"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is… suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."

"I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it’s relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?"

"For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."