School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them together so she can be whole again.

The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

The truth is in the heart

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

No achieving without believing

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom.

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.