Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.

...I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live.

Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't.When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are--how impossible to reach.

Reaching and reached. Cassia

She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.

Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.

We need you.""I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.

Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land bel

No, ' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been.

Knowledge never grows old

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

Humans - a renewable resource.

Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

I think it's going to be a pivot of spirit for the country, a period of smart deals for the country, a stronger military.

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.