I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.

Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.

In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.

I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.

No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change.

She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved.

Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there to grade me on such an awesome performance.

There are no ugly women there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

Thankfulness makes much of little.

I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.