Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.

I’ve been thinking.” “A dangerous pursuit.” “Indeed.

Lying is easy. But it's lonely.""What do you mean?""When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?""Nothing, " I say."Exactly.

The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

He manages a sad smile. “An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation.

Like I said, Kenzie. Everything ends. I’m not afraid to die, ” you say with a wan smile. “I just hope I’m smart enough to stay dead.

May the energy of the day always call for celebration." Barbara Botch

I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

I believe we have this idea that bad things ought to be prevented from happening.

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

Tact is good taste in action.

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .

THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all