Kenzie

“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”

“I’m sorry you thought this couldn’t work, because I’ve never wanted anything more in my life than to prove that it could.”

“Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and, most disturbingly, caring about nothing.”

“It will never be the same. Call our heartbreak foolish. But you cannot demolish a wall and pretend you do not see the cracks. The way the edges will never fit the way they used to. Tell me. How does one act serene after their heart has been shredded to pieces?”

“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”

“You were my first love and I don’t regret anything at all. I just believe I was naive for thinking you and I would have made it. I wanted you to be the one for me but I know you’re not the one for me. No matter how hard we tried, it would have never worked out between us. The thought of you with someone else makes me sick to my stomach because when I first met you, I wanted you to be mine only. I told myself that I would never lose you and I lost you. Sometimes, I don’t think of you and other times you cross my mind like waves. I can’t help but wonder if you’re all right or if you’re thinking of me too. I hope you’re happy and I wish nothing but the best for you. I’ll never forget that one evening, we were in your garage applying dye to each other’s hair and I started crying when we talked about us. I was so scared of losing you, tears begun to flow from my eyes as you sympathized with me. You told me no matter what, you’ll always be there. I’m sitting in my bed right now and you’re not here. It’s funny how , we humans, promise such risky promises that will eventually be broken. We don’t know what will happen. We just go day by day in hopes life works in our favor. We just weren’t meant to be and that’s okay. Maybe in another life time, you and I will meet and start all over again and we’ll laugh about how we broke each other’s heart. Farewell my love.”

“If flowers can grow through blankets of melting snow, there is hope for me.”

“He always brought out the best in me. For his love was a soothing salve. One that flourishes my own kidness while dulling all my sharp edges. For he is warm daylight. And I soon bloom like a sprout emerging from the ice.”