The Wilds aren't safe anymore.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting what was left of me. I could feel it at night

I am a happy healthy soul by divine grace.

Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty.

It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

Light is quite tactile to me. It has shape and dimension.

I think I'm a homebody. I don't talk to anyone. I sit at home, and no one asks me questions or I'm talking about goat noises.