In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

It still hurts, " she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, " Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.

Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk