That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time.

In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.

I need a spanking. They make me feel better.

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.