Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.

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.

marinate your mind

you may always find good books to read but the best and the ultimate book to read is the Holy Bible

This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.

Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.

We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.