I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me.

You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

... I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.

Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.

I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...

Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.

An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

You become a changed person when you face the reaper and deny him your soul.

‎"The more we spend our time 'practicing the presence' of Jesus, the more we become like Him"~ R. Alan Woods

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.

Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

CNBC is a very serious-minded financial news network, and what we've seen thus far from Fox appears to be not as investment-focused or financially focused, and that's good for us.

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

Every candidate has passive support. It's just people that are gonna vote for him no matter what.