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Substituting the discount rate for the ever increasing chance of death and a dollar for joy, joy today is worth more than joy tomorrow.

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.

Your days are only important if you decide to make them important.

It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making.

One thing a girl loves more than a bad boy is a self-aware bad boy.

You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach.

I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.

They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money.

At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland.

I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it.

We smoked the joints down to the roaches and then relaxed beneath the stars to let the drug form dazzling constellations.

What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that?

Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts.

In a world of differing opinions, mentally unstable people and complete psychopaths, it was the type of simplistic notion that some people wouldn't want to follow or ignorance would just simply not allow them to understand.

Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old.

It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug.

Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it.

Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me.