Don't mind Russ, " he says. "He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak when he drinks

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

I thought you're someone worth fighting for. But after all, you're not.

They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge, " Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.

Regretfully, but I have to admit that A. Einstein was right. -''Who?''. Oh, there was such a guy...

Christians don’t the moral right to be indifferent

The sinews of war are infinite money.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

Love is a landscape the long mountains define but don't shut off from the unseeable distance.

The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.