That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

I am only alive because I have not yet died.

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

What the war did to dreamers.

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

What the war did to the dreamers.

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind.

To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

If we agree on everything, only one of us is necessary.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

My demon's a girl? Gideon said, astonished.

My Worst Political Move of the 2015 Year. John Boehner inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to address the joint session of Congress.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .