Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.

She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating.

You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.

They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities.

She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two.

Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide.

Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body.

She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.

You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you...

I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted to leave a mark on the Earth and be remembered.

She kissed him… long enough he could almost hear her thoughts. Long enough that he began to know her story, know what she had been through.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

Brothers naturally invite comparison.

"Percy, you're a brave guy," She said. "Just take the compliment. I swear, is it so hard?"

You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.