"I love wearing trackies to lounge around the house in and the strange thing is, it doesn’t matter how many new ones I get I still tend to feel most comfortable in my old ones."

“The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.”

Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.

“You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.”

Source : Matthew Thomas (2014). “We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

“Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.”

“where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?...”

“I'm not going to be sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar singing about my troubles anytime soon. I mean, I'm going to sing about my troubles but in an aggressive way. In my own way.”

Source : "Jemina Pearl Talks BYOP Split, New Band, "Gossip Girl"". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 16, 2009.

“All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.”

“Distance lends enchantment to the view.”

“The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.