I'm not always the best at expressing myself to you, so I'm taking advantage of the fact that I will be completely unresponsive when you read this, and therefore incapable of messing things up

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."

Would you risk your life for love?

I've always felt that any establishment that doesn't welcome me with open arms doesn't deserve my patronage.

Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.

Feelings change with time - or at least pain lessens with time; I know that from experience.

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.

I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away.

Life is pure loving intelligence. There are no mistakes.

We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple.

You can save people's lives but you can't save them from life!

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

TV is my first love and I haven't disappeared from it totally.

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.