I feel like a three-dimensional girl in a two-dimensional world.

You will love the ocean. It makes you feel so... I don't know. Small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you're part of something bigger.

But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.

She felt justified in hurting him, because he had hurt her...but now all her justifications fell away like dead butterflies...

We're all just people...We all have things we deal with, but it's all right. We always muddle through.

But i can't let you go, " he said. "How could I let you go? I searched my heart"—he shrugged— "and I love you.

Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think “harder” via different thought processes.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.