It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

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.

We were created to be productive

Someone has to be the best

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

I'm still here, I'm still alive, I'm still blessed, on my way to my destiny, because the favor of God is on my life.

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

I love melodies so it's usually where I start.

The climate change argument is absolute crap

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.