#24

As the tide washed up, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean:

“Conjoiner rejoiner poisoner concealer revelator.

Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it.”

“What’s that?” I asked.

“Water,” the Dutchman replied. “Well, and time.”

Peter Van Houten (John Green), An Imperial Affliction (The Fault in Our Stars)

From An Imperial Affliction, a book within The Fault in Our Stars.

#21

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out to us.

That’s why it is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

#16

Nobody knows I’m all alone

Living in this castle made of stone

They say that money is freedom

But I feel trapped inside it all.

And while I sit so high up on a throne

I wonder how I can feel this low

On top the world it’s beautiful

But there’s no place to fall.

TI & Christina Aguilera, Castle Walls

#15

Maybe there’s a God above

But all I’ve ever learned from love

Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you

And it’s not a cry that you hear at night

It’s not somebody who’s seen the light

It’s a cold and it’s a broken

Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah