Every spot his mouth touches closes the empty spaces inside.

My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death.

There are few things I hate more than feeling weak. Needing help or failing top the list. The worst, however, is knowing that all three just happened.

A hand in mine.. hot. Breath on my neck... sweet. The feel of lips on my own... forbidden.

Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.

I press my lips hard against hers, tasting her desire, her pain, her love, her confusion. At once I’m in two lives, two worlds, two places.

He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.

I never mastered anything. I am damaged. Broken. And I always will be.

Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity.

What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden?

What do dreams matter if you lose yourself along the way?

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

A selfie is a proof that either we are very lonely or too self absorbed to ask others to take our picture.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

There are really only two options - you can feel things, or you can shut down. But, once you decide to feel things, you don't get to pick and choose what you feel.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.

Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

Nap time over. Gonna go be active. Do it people!!! In the end all you have is your health.