Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

When we are right, we earn. When we are wrong, we learn.

The P's of life:Passion, Persistence, Perseverance.

Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?""I'll probably outgrow it, " I said.

The world is the house of the strong.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.

In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . .

How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.