Other blokes might take advantage, but to Tom, the idea of honor was a kind of antidote to some of the things he'd lived through.

Scars are just another kind of memory.

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

From when she was a baby, Tom has taught the girl to respect, but not fear, the forces of nature- the lightning that might strike the light tower on Janus, the oceans that batter the island.

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things" Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt

The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

The evening pulsed with omens gentle to the eyes, and Valentina had a romantic crush on it all, like every good witch should.

What we do determines much of what happens in the world to come, not just for ourselves, but for those around us.

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.

My mom ate every piece of butter in the Midwest, she lived till she was 90. And my dad, he smoked, he drank - we finally just had to kill him.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.