How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.

Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.

I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.

Who you're becoming is far more important than what you're doing, and yet, it is what you're doing that is determining who you're becoming.

The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name.

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.