Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.

Starting a new way is never easy so...keep starting until the start sticks.

People can say crap. They can think whatever they want, but you control how you feel about it.

[Eddie] wondered if every criminal saw himself as the hero of his own story and if every thankless son was convinced he'd been mistreated by his father.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

DIE in the past. Live in the future.

As long as I leave my frustration behind, I know I am moving toward my goal again.

I think it's great to change - change country, change anything.