No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

I forgive you, " I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt?it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.

Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.

It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.

While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

The U.S. has no friends, only interests.

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

It doesn't matter in the end who wins and loses cause we're just here havin fun. And I'm totally lying. It always matters who wins.