A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.

Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.

I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.