Even though we'd put each other through hell, we'd found heaven. Maybe it was more than a couple of sinners like us deserved, but I wasn't going to complain.

I couldn't imagine being a girl. The bullshit routine they had to go through just to get out the door consumed half of their lives.

Once she kissed me, my heart slowed, and every muscle in my body relaxed. How much I needed her terrified me. -pg 252/ARC

Cry if you must. Scream. Get it all out of your system, and then we'll have fun. It won't last forever, but it will keep you busy for tonight.

So how you're gonna play this?" Trenton asked."Divide and conquer.""Divide what?""His head from the rest of his body."Trenton nodded quickly. "Good plan.

If not us, then who? Who's going to stand when everyone else kneels? Who's going to argue for the law even when there's no justice to be had? Who's going to try even when the trying is too damn hard?

brown life is an unbroken bearing of the weight and hollow of the active absence of brown life.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.

...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.