How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?

Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have.

You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.

I just liked girls because I couldn't help not to.

I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.

But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.

It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life.

The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.

...when I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to see more.

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

I don’t want to finish reading the book.

God’s grace is our greatest need for every good deed.

If he does it with you, he'll do it to you.

If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

The wife is the key of the house.

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.