History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

And all I loved, I loved alone.

There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Treason starts the moment when people violate their own rights.

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date.

I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.

Anne Romaine collected her own parallel archive to [Alex] Haley.

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

Fans aren't just fans... they're part of my family.