Her eyes were a bottomless ocean that I would give up air to explore.

Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.

Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo

Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past

I will call bullshit on that so many times that the word bullshit will lose all meaning. -Milo

we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.

I’ll take my chances against your fickle heart if it means it’s mine.

But sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until it’s already knocked you flat on your back.

Oh how I had underestimated tender kisses.

Your pain made you strong. It made youpassionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade

Curing cancer affects good cells in short run too but makes a life flourish in long term. Curing corruption affects good people in short run too but makes a nation flourish in long term.

…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred.

To decipher pure theory into intellectual practice is education.

Soon after a heart-wrung decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt on your choice. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves your decision.

Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

Love is talkative passion.

I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I’ll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don’t have that, you’re not taking enough risks.

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.