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Oh my God, I'm getting pulled over. Everyone, just... pretend to be normal. ~ It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. ~ The future's uncertain and the end is always near. ~ Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ~ If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions. ~ Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. ~ I wanna be with her more, I wanna be with her all the time, and I wanna tell her things I don't even tell you or mum. And I don't want her to have another boyfriend. I suppose if I could have all those things, I wouldn't really mind if I touched her or not. ~ I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. ~ For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ~ You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul. ~ Oh, please, just shut up. You're wounding my soul. ~ The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ~ One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. ~ Maybe, maybe not. Maybe f**k yourself.

Quotes in order of appearance:

(Little Miss Sunshine)(Terry Pratchett) (Jim Morrison) ( Dr. Seuss) (Pulp Fiction) (Neil Gaiman) (About a Boy) (Roy Croft) (Judy Garland) (Julie de Lespinasse) (About a Boy) (Marcel Pagnol) (James Earl Jones) (The Departed)