It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said.

Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.

Is this the baby?" I said.Ma turned on me again."What do you think it is?" she said. "A midget that can't talk?

The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.

Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.

Snap your fingerstop the world - rain falls harder

Kill an unborn baby and you still couldn't de-fetus.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.