Talking to her is like coming home and finding the furniture in every room rearranged. The same pieces are there, the same sense of comfort, but nothing is exactly the where you'd expect.

It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.

There are much more important qualities to have than a docile disposition.

Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.

I love how you still think if you tell me to do something, I'll just check my brain at the door and do it.

I reach up and pat them both on the head. "Poor things. If you had a boy that looked like Logan, you'd be kissing him every chance you had, too.

And for me, it means honoring those who've loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me.

Sometimes the thing you think will fix everything ruins it instead. And sometimes what hurts you has to tear you apart before it makes you stronger.

Thank you for telling me fairy tales, but also for teaching me how to face the battle I'd need to win in real life.

Sometimes having courage means the hardest tasks fall onto your shoulders, and those leave the biggest scars.

Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.

In some situations, no one has courage to challenge the reason. Since faith causes the reasoning to evaporate.

I would so rock at running amuck.

And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

My humor was kind of from my dad and all the stuff that we went through, which was a lot of death. My humor was an escape.

Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really the important thing.

SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

It feels so good to laugh at myself. I'd probably cry my eyes out if I didn't.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.