Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

If you become angry with someone today, it is a discharge kashaya (karma effect of anger-pride-deceit-greed). But in that [discharge karma] your intent is for it, which “charges” a [new] karmic seed.

...Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them

She could live without her past. She was better off without her past. But Ian couldn’t live without his heart.

Probably you should stay out of my head. It’s not a friendly place.

I wish social disparity has long gone, people can be genuine, and news can be fact-based and error-free.

When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?

What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.