But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says."Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it’s her.

I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite

I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.

He brought his forehead against mine and we breathed the same air, slowly to try and find our composure. But it was impossible for me as long as he’s so close to me. “You’re ruining me.�

And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently.

I am a pretty straight sort of guy.