She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things.

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.

You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.

What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.

Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.

They’ve loved you your whole life and you’ve been gone for days. I’ve just loved you for the better part of a week and losing you just ‘bout drove me crazy.

If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s not because it’s a dull world, that’s because you’re not poet enough to wake its soul up.

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

She [Beyonce] is just an energetic performer and she loves drums. She loves edge.

The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.