Human reason can excuse any evil.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

Everything is theater.

I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.

The city is recruited from the country.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.

One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that one will find the biggest inspiration.' And he was right.

One Almighty is more than all mighties