I would only blame myself if something happened to you.

What fueled this hatred? Society.

It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know.

I’m not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past...and our future. It’s a fact of life.

I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for the people I had met and the people I had lost.

I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.

War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.

He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

Until they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.

Damn the way he had control over me.

And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.

There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just ate its fruits and roamed its wilds and didn’t need anyone.

Just one pit stop, Rae. One pit stop that won't even take an hour. Then it's over. It's finally over.

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

There's nothing political about American literature.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.