I had a million different dreams but none of them was stronger than the rest. In the end they probably would have paralyzed me.

You’re sure you didn’t leave? Didn’t try to explore Thunder Bay again, maybe go down to the park and, I don’t know, dismember some poor jogger?

The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.

You make me want things that I can't have.

It's shitty I guess. They're my friends. But... everything I want to talk about I can't say to them. It feels so separate, like I've touched something that's taken the color out of me.

I hate telling people this. I never know exactly how my voice is going to sound saying it, and I hate the stricken looks they get on their faces when they don't know what to say back.

The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.

What are you going to fill it with?" she asks. "Holy water or something?" "Probably Dasani, " Thomas replies.

I can't believe that she's questioning the existence of magic when she's standing before me dead and talking.

Using for a noble purpose is still using.

We've got our heads pulled low inside of our hooded sweatshirts and our eyes are shifty. We look exactly like you'd expect someone to look if they were minutes away from committing a major crime.

Maya (deceit) means ignorance of one’s own Self!

A stóirín, ya are a handful of trouble, but I kind of like it.

IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.

The dream of every cell is to become two cells.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

You got shot at and you still got me an air conditioner.

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

I've never been very fully employed either.