But, when she was alone, someone rapped on the door and she found herself on her feet, knife in hand, before she had time to reason with her fear.

[regarding the sacrifice] It was all very professionally done, even to a man whose religion consisted mostly of half formed and unanswered questions, it was strangely reassuring.

Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.

The most important duty of a person is to love himself wholeheartedly.

Don't make jokes about food.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

We haven't learned to be the majority party. We haven't learned how to lead. We're still stuck in the opposition.

I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when Im in Starbucks.

You're never promised your next breath.

You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?

What would you like? (Maggie) I don’t care. I’ll eat anything not Tylenol or chocolate. (Wren)