She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Before giving up, try hard.

To reimagine IT, IT branding needs to be part of IT transformation effort.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.

O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

Why is everything that is bad for me feel so good?

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

A short absence is the safest.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.