"A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty."

"Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.", 2005]"

"There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.”“And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick.“Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance."

"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

"In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured."

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"To travel is to live."

"When things go wrong, don't go with them."

"Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is."

"Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you."

"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost."

"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there."

"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."

"For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

"This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."

"It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."