If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

I have found the key to a happy life is to get lost in love.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Togetherness is the key to success: a lone bee makes hardly any honey

This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow.

She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.