It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

If you get three women and a dog together and they all mate together they're not gonna have a baby

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

Most people get better when they face competition.

Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self.

Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.

The warrior of light only risks his heart for something worthwhile.

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time