I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

Oh God, this is my fantasy! Where those just-friend boys suddenly realize they lov

According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.

Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see.

A new mind, equals a new life.

The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood.

What do women want? A guy they can't drive crazy. There aren't many around. But they try. They can't help it, it's their nature.

If I remember correctly, the most efficient campaign in modern times, in terms of burn rate, had been Obama's 2012 reelect, which I believe the number was they spent 37 cents at every dollar.