So, at the last, a story.

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

The heart, once broken, stayed broken.

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

City of memories, city of mirrors.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

What is home but a place where you are truly known?

Behind every great hatred is a love story.

It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.

I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!

I don't strive to be a perfect being. I only push to put in my best in everything that I do. I refuse to let any of my abilities to go unused.

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.

No,” he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. “They grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver.” Elena laughed at the scowl in his voice.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.

I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.