It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone. -Macon Ravenwood

Jump or stay in the boat.

Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon

I am powerful because of who and what I am. Not because of who I am not.

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

My mama told me If you're the smartest person in the room then you're in the wrong room.

A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

The mind can never foresee its own advance

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.

No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.

It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.

Thou art relieved of thy duties!