I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

I am so, so alive.

Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.

I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.

And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way, ” said Roark.

I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up.

If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.

He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.

You see all I need is a whisper in a world that only shouts.

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.

Nothing is out of reach for Jesus.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.