If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead.

Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over.

What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack--even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

I'll see it when I believe it

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.

Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

Dreams are there to be realized, not to be dreamed. To realize a dream, you have to stay steadfast in your strong will.

[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.

A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.