I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

To be social is to be forgiving.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.

I thought if I could make people laugh about how awkward I am, it'd make me less awkward. But you also realise how fun it is to make people laugh.

Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.