Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her.

And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the Sparrow

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?

My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.

Merry Christmas, I whisper to myself. Merry Christmas, Nate.

I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of...of what? Light? Life? Cheese?

Oh my gosh, he smells good, like some exotic but comforting spice, nutmeg or cardamom. Slowly Damian lowers his head to mine and I think my chest might explode, my heart is tap-dancing so qui

So, what's up with you and Damian?" Helena

Don't allow the faults you've made in the past define the person you are today.

Fun things are fun.

Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

Based on something called a 'ping,' where you literally ping a cell phone using an electronic signal that then reflects the location of where that cell phone is.

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

We went from candy bars, to handle bars, to hangin' in bars, to being behind bars

The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.

Drop all your botheration to me and be free of worry