Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

Mutually assured destruction.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.

I got bored, " he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

I think beauty is rarely worth the trouble.” Shahrzad gripped Irsa’s hand tighter in sisterly solidarity. “But I am worth a great deal more than what you see.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever.

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.