As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls

Through seeing the good in others, you also see the best within yourself.

He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.

Character and Professionalism can only be seen when faced with adversity…

The best method of sharing your vision is your personal example

Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist.

Excuse my dress. I was half an hour late this morning. When you lose half an hour in this house, you never can pick it up again, try how you may. -Reverend Finch's wife

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.