As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.

Family is never really gone.

It’s all in my mind.I’m in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.

And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.But there is no echo of it in my mind.

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that’s already come true.

I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This… this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.

I have emotions, ” I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.

I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.

If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

[R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest.

The difficulties and challenges in your life are the lessons you need to learn to grow and development.

...the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't...

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

A lot of unions are doing the same thing on the left that the NRA is doing on the right.

So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?