He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.

But war had a taming effect

What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.

An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.

To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.

What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.

We all cross a hundred peaks to get even this far. And there will be more before we each make it to whatever God has fated for us.

Cornered mothers pray for strange things.

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.

Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?

Murphy's Law states that, "If anything will go wrong, it will".Positive side of this law is, "If anything good can happen, it definitely will happen

Happiness is an inner perception, not a reality.

Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before?

I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

Getting along with one and other isn't meant to be difficult.