I felt it. I heard the snap of my heart tearing in half. It wasn’t a messy, dirty rip like I’d expected, but a smooth, clean line that knew just where to break to hurt me the most.

You understand what I’m telling you, Tommy? You have a light inside you, and the only person who gets to decide whether that light shines or not is you.

Heartache is my constant companion, and we’re perfect for one another. Two co-dependent peas in a pod. My past and my future.

I part my lips, but no words come out. I want to cry. Want to beg. Want to scream. But mostly, I want to hold him until I know he’s going to be okay. Then I want him to hold me until I’m okay, too.

His eyes close, and he draws a long breath. When they open again, they’re colder than ever. “And that’s where you’d be disappointed, Lou.There is no good to be found in Death.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Mary, you make me wanna eat you Every time I see you, it's like the first time I meet you Fragrance like a flower, subtle and sweet too Seductive and whatever, it might as well be see through.

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

If we leave Iraq, terrorists will follow us home.

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.