“That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.”

“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”

“People don't very much like things that are beautiful — they are so far from their nasty little minds.”

“It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.”

“Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.”

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

“love doesn't follow the rules… nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.”

“I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.”

“We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us.
‘Suckers.’ I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.”

“I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.”